CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-1548

Published: Jan 06, 2017 | Modified: Nov 17, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.2
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.4 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An attacker can spoof a packet from a legitimate ntpd server with an origin timestamp that matches the peer->dst timestamp recorded for that server. After making this switch, the client in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec aa48d001683e5b791a743ec9c575aaf7d867a2b0c will reject all future legitimate server responses. It is possible to force the victim client to move time after the mode has been changed. ntpq gives no indication that the mode has been switched.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ntp Ntp 4.2.8-p4 (including) 4.2.8-p4 (including)
Ntp Ubuntu precise *
Ntp Ubuntu trusty *
Ntp Ubuntu upstream *
Ntp Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Ntp Ubuntu wily *
Ntp Ubuntu xenial *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat ntp-0:4.2.6p5-10.el6.1 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support RedHat ntp-0:4.2.6p5-5.el6_7.5 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat ntp-0:4.2.6p5-22.el7_2.2 *

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