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CVE-2016-1547
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-06T21:59:00.320 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:42:08.537

Summary

An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if authentication is enabled.

Affected products

ntp — ntp

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References

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