VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-9310

medium
Published 2017-01-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The control mode (mode 6) functionality in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9 allows remote attackers to set or unset traps via a crafted control mode packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 4.2.8.p9-1
debian Debian Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
bullseye Fixed 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ntpntp{"endIncluding":"4.2.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.