Clock Manipulation Vulnerability in NTP 4.2.8p4 and Earlier and NTPsec

CVE-2016-1549 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.

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