CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2016-4957
High (7.5). EPSS 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crypto-NAK packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-1547.
Severity
- EPSS
- 45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- novell:suse_manager
- ntp:ntp
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:opensuse
- oracle:solaris
- suse:linux_enterprise_desktop
- suse:linux_enterprise_server
- suse:manager_proxy
- suse:openstack_cloud
References
- http://bugs.ntp.org/3046
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00023.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00024.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00028.html