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CVE-2016-2519
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-30T21:59:01.113 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:44:12.883

Summary

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

Affected products

ntp — ntp

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References

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