Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Network Time Protocol
daemon and utility programs:
CVE-2015-7974
Matt Street discovered that insufficient key validation allows
impersonation attacks between authenticated peers.
CVE-2015-7977 / CVE-2015-7978
Stephen Gray discovered that a NULL pointer dereference and a
buffer overflow in the handling of "ntpdc reslist" commands may
result in denial of service.
CVE-2015-7979
Aanchal Malhotra discovered that if NTP is configured for broadcast
mode, an attacker can send malformed authentication packets which
break associations with the server for other broadcast clients.
CVE-2015-8138
Matthew van Gundy and Jonathan Gardner discovered that missing
validation of origin timestamps in ntpd clients may result in denial
of service.
CVE-2015-8158
Jonathan Gardner discovered that missing input sanitising in ntpq
may result in denial of service.
CVE-2016-1547
Stephen Gray and Matthew van Gundy discovered that inc...
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