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Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: April 2016

cisco-sa-20160428-ntpd · Medium · Published 10 years ago · Updated 10 years ago

Multiple Cisco products incorporate a version of the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) package. Versions of this package are affected by one or more vulnerabilities that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition or modify the time being advertised by a device acting as a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. On April 26, 2016, the NTP Consortium of the Network Time Foundation released a security notice that details 11 issues regarding DoS vulnerabilities, information disclosure vulnerabilities, and logic issues that may allow an attacker to shift a system's time. Two of the vulnerabilities disclosed in the NTP security notice address issues that were previously disclosed without a complete fix. The new vulnerabilities disclosed in this document are as follows: CVE-2016-1547: Network Time Protocol CRYPTO-NAK Denial of Service Vulnerability CVE-2016-1548: Network Time Protocol Interleave-Pivot Denial of Service Vulnerability CVE-2016-1549: Network Time Protocol Sybil Ephemeral Association Attack Vulnerability CVE-2016-1550: Network Time Protocol Improve NTP Security Against Buffer Comparison Timing Attacks CVE-2016-1551: Network Time Protocol Refclock Impersonation Vulnerability CVE-2016-2516: Network Time Protocol Duplicate IPs on Unconfig Directives Will Cause an Assertion Botch in ntpd CVE-2016-2517: Network Time Protocol Remote Configuration Trustedkey/Requestkey/Controlkey Values Are Not Properly Validated CVE-2016-2518: Network Time Protocol Crafted addpeer Causes Array Wraparound with MATCH_ASSOC CVE-2016-2519: Network Time Protocol Remote ctl_getitem() Return Value Not Always Checked The two vulnerabilities that were previously disclosed without a complete fix are as follows: CVE-2015-8138: Network Time Protocol Zero Origin Timestamp Bypass CVE-2015-7704: Network Time Protocol Packet Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability Those vulnerabilities were disclosed by Cisco in the following Cisco Security Advisories: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ntpd Affecting Cisco Products - October 2015 Multiple Vulnerabilities in Network Time Protocol Daemon Affecting Cisco Products: January 2016 Additional details about each vulnerability are in the NTP Consortium Security Notice. Cisco will release software updates that address these vulnerabilities. Workarounds that address one or more of these vulnerabilities may be available and will be documented in the Cisco bug for each affected product. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160428-ntpd

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