ubuntu · CVE-2016-4956

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Priority: low Published: 2016-07-04 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:04:28 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4956 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ntp), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 3, not-affected 2, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.

Description:

ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (interleaved-mode transition and time change) via a spoofed broadcast packet. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-1548.

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