Security Advisory

CVE-2016-1550

5.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92. An attacker can send a series of crafted messages to attempt to recover the message digest key.
Published Date January 6, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory