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CVE-2015-7979

Public on 2016-02-09
Modified on 2016-10-18
Description

It was found that when NTP was configured in broadcast mode, a remote attacker could broadcast packets with bad authentication to all clients. The clients, upon receiving the malformed packets, would break the association with the broadcast server, causing them to become out of sync over a longer period of time.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ntp 2016-02-09 13:30 ALAS-2016-649

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/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:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H