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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:23967
HistoryApr 10, 2020 - 12:42 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2020-04-1000:42:01
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
32

EPSS

0.966

Percentile

99.7%

The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is vulnerable to Denial Of Service (DoS). Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered a flaw in the way ntpd handled certain malformed NTP packets. ntpd logged information about all such packets and replied with an NTP packet that was treated as malformed when received by another ntpd. A remote attacker could use this flaw to create an NTP packet reply loop between two ntpd servers via a malformed packet with a spoofed source IP address and port, causing ntpd on those servers to use excessive amounts of CPU time and fill disk space with log messages.

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