Vulnerability in Novell Suse_manager
CVE-2016-4955
ntpd in NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p8, when autokey is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (peer-variable clearing and association outage) by sending (1) a spoofed crypto-NAK packet or (2) a packet with an incorrect MAC…
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.017 (82.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Novell Suse_manager — versions 2.1
- Ntp — versions 4.2.8
- Oracle Solaris — versions 10, 11.3
- Siemens Simatic_net_cp_443-1_opc_ua
- Siemens Simatic_net_cp_443-1_opc_ua_firmware
- Opensuse Leap — versions 42.1
- Opensuse — versions 13.2
- Suse Linux_enterprise_desktop — versions 12
- Suse Linux_enterprise_server — versions 11, 12
- Suse Manager_proxy — versions 2.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- SUSE-SU-2016:1602 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- USN-3096-1 (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- FEDORA-2016-c3bd6a3496 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1583 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- FreeBSD-SA-16:24 (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- SUSE-SU-2016:1912 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- FEDORA-2016-89e0874533 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- 91007 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- 1036037 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-4955?
- CVE-2016-4955 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Novell Suse_manager, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2016-07-05.
- How severe is CVE-2016-4955?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.