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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-7426 Detail

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 rate limits responses received from the configured sources when rate limiting for all associations is enabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (prevent responses from the sources) by sending responses with a spoofed source address.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://nwtime.org/ntp428p9_release/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0252.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3071 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Mitigation  Vendor Advisory 
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Recent_Vulnerabilities CVE, MITRE Release Notes  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94451 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037354 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa139 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03706en_us CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:39.ntp.asc CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3707-2/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/633847 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-7426
NVD Published Date:
01/13/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
MITRE