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CVE-2015-7704

Public on 2015-10-27
Modified on 2015-10-27
Description

It was discovered that ntpd as a client did not correctly check timestamps in Kiss-of-Death packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a crafted Kiss-of-Death packet to an ntpd client that would increase the client's polling interval value, and effectively disable synchronization with the server.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ntp 2015-10-27 16:42 ALAS-2015-607

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H