CVE-2016-1549

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Published 2017-01-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v2
4.0
VIR risk
6.5

Description

A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1549

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cret@cert.org — http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0083/

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-11

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1549.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed4.2.8.p11-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp4.2.8

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.