Candidate: CVE-2016-6301 PublicDate: 2016-12-09 20:59:00 UTC References: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6301 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. Ubuntu-Description: Notes: sbeattie> ntp server not built in ubuntu/debian busybox packages. Bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833442 Priority: low Discovered-by: Assigned-to: CVSS: nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH] Patches_busybox: upstream: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=150dc7a2b483b8338a3e185c478b4b23ee884e71 upstream_busybox: needs-triage precise_busybox: not-affected (code not built) trusty_busybox: not-affected (code not built) trusty/esm_busybox: not-affected (code not built) vivid/stable-phone-overlay_busybox: not-affected (code not built) vivid/ubuntu-core_busybox: not-affected (code not built) xenial_busybox: not-affected (code not built) esm-infra/xenial_busybox: not-affected (code not built) devel_busybox: not-affected (code not built)