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CVE-2016-7426 Details

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 rate limits responses received from the configured sources when rate limiting for all associations is enabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent responses from the sources) by sending responses with a spoofed source address.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://nwtime.org/ntp428p9_release/ CVEThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0252.html CVEThird Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa139 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03706en_us CVEThird Party Advisory
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:39.ntp.asc CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-7426
NVD Published Date:
Jan 13, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]