ubuntu · CVE-2016-7429

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Priority: low Published: 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:10:15 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7429 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (ntp), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 4, not-affected 2.

Description:

NTP before 4.2.8p9 changes the peer structure to the interface it receives the response from a source, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent communication with a source) by sending a response for a source to an interface the source does not use.

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