Security Advisories
CVEs affecting projects tracked on Release Alert, from NVD & OSV.
CVE-2016-6301
7.5
HIGHCVSS v3
Published
December 9, 2016
CVSS v2
7.8 HIGH
Affected
1 project
Assigned by
Red Hat
Severity scale
010
Description
The recv_and_process_client_pkt function in networking/ntpd.c in busybox allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged NTP packet, which triggers a communication loop.
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