CVE-2016-7433

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-01-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-682

Description

NTP before 4.2.8p9 does not properly perform the initial sync calculations, which allows remote attackers to unspecified impact via unknown vectors, related to a "root distance that did not include the peer dispersion."

Affected products

NTP: through 4.2.8

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00153.html
http://nwtime.org/ntp428p9_release/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0252.html
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3067
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Recent_Vulnerabilities
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171129-01-ntpd-en
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539955/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540254/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/539955/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/540254/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94455

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