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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2016-9312 in the critical feed json

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large UDP packet.

published 2017-01-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10122

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.7%
EPSS 31.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8p9, when running on Windows, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large UDP packet.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9312 updated cvss 7.5

ntp: DoS by oversized UDP packet

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ntp Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ntp, ntpdate, ntp-perl Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ntp, sntp, ntpdate, ntp-perl
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

31.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.