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CVE-2016-7426

ntp: Client rate limiting and server responses

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 21, 2016

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

It was found that when ntp is configured with rate limiting for all associations the limits are also applied to responses received from its configured sources. A remote attacker who knows the sources can cause a denial of service by preventing ntpd from accepting valid responses from its sources.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

If you choose to use restrict default limited ..., be sure to use restrict source ... (without limited) to avoid this attack.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption