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CVE-2016-2519

5.9 mediumEPSS 6.9%

Medium (5.9) in ntp ntp. EPSS 6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
6.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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