CVE-2016-1547 Information

Description

An off-path attacker can cause a preemptible client association to be demobilized in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 by sending a crypto NAK packet to a victim client with a spoofed source address of an existing associated peer. This is true even if authentication is enabled.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1552.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3629 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/88276 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035705 http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0081/ https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1141 https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:16.ntp.asc https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-15 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20171004-0002/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

5.3