Denial of Service Vulnerability in ntpd

CVE-2016-2519 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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