CVE-2016-2519

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CVSS 3.0

5.9 medium

EPSS

7%p94

Published

Jan 30, 2017 (Jan 30, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p7 and 4.3.x before 4.3.92 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ntpd abort) by a large request data value, which triggers the ctl_getitem function to return a NULL value.

Vendors: ntp
Products: ntp
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (6.9%)

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