CVE-2016-4955

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8, when autokey is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peer-variable clearing and association outage) by sending (1) a spoofed crypto-NAK packet or (2) a packet with an incorrect MAC value at a certain time.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jul 5, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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