Where
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Severity
6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

ntprequest.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.4p8, and 4.2.5, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by using MODEPRIVATE to send a spoofed (1) request or (2) response packet that triggers a continuous exchange of MODEPRIVATE error responses between two NTP daemons.

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