CVE-2016-1550

Publication date 29 April 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An exploitable vulnerability exists in the message authentication functionality of libntp in ntp 4.2.8p4 and NTPSec a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92. An attacker can send a series of crafted messages to attempt to recover the message digest key.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ntp	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ntp	Upstream: http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/?PAGE=patch&REV=566bf5d3dZ5HASyXGnVlxig-qUuvqw Vendor: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/ntp.git/tree/ntp-4.2.6p5-cve-2016-1550.patch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3096-1
NTP vulnerabilities
5 October 2016