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CVE-2016-1551

NTP Project / NTP PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p3 and NTPsec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 relies on the underlying operating system to protect it from requests that impersonate reference clocks. Because reference clocks are treated like other peers and stored in the same structure, any packet with a source ip address of a reference clock (127.127.1.1 for example) that reaches the receive() function will match that reference clock's peer record and will be treated as a trusted peer. Any system that lacks the typical martian packet filtering which would block these packets is in danger of having its time controlled by an attacker.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
NTP Project / NTPaffected 4.2.8p3; affected 4.2.8p4
NTPsec Project / NTPSecaffected 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74; affected a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

No English description supplied.