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CVE-2015-7974

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Entered Topic
2016-01-21 ntp -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2015-7974
Phase Assigned(20151023)

Description

NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 do not verify peer associations of symmetric keys when authenticating packets, which might allow remote attackers to conduct impersonation attacks via an arbitrary trusted key, aka a "skeleton key."

References

Source Reference
MISC http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0071/
CONFIRM http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2936
CONFIRM http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug2936