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CVE-2016-7433

Public on 2017-01-04
Modified on 2018-05-10
Description

A flaw was found in the way ntpd calculated the root delay. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted spoofed packet to cause denial of service or in some special cases even crash.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 ntp 2017-01-04 17:00 ALAS-2017-781
Amazon Linux 2 - Core ntp 2018-05-10 17:11 ALAS2-2018-1009

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.2 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 2.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L