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CVE-2016-1550

Public on 2016-06-02
Modified on 2016-06-03
Description

A flaw was found in the way NTP's libntp performed message authentication. An attacker able to observe the timing of the comparison function used in packet authentication could potentially use this flaw to recover the message digest.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ntp 2016-06-02 18:06 ALAS-2016-708

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N