CVE-2016-6301

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6301
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6301.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6301
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-12-09T20:59:01.827Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:03:17.142358071Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The recvandprocessclientpkt 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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/busybox

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/busybox
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
868530ade244bf8162fb6a10816bd815b166d509
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.25.1"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:busybox:busybox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

Other
0_29alpha2
0_32
0_33
0_34
0_36
0_39
0_40
0_41
0_42
0_43
0_43pre1
0_45
0_46
0_47
0_48
0_49
0_50
0_51
0_52
0_60_0
0_60_1
0_60_2
0_60_3
0_60_4
0_60_5
1_00
1_00_pre1
1_00_pre10
1_00_pre2
1_00_pre3
1_00_pre4
1_00_pre5
1_00_pre6
1_00_pre7
1_00_pre8
1_00_pre9
1_00_rc1
1_00_rc2
1_00_rc3
1_10_0
1_12_0
1_14_0
1_15_0
1_16_0
1_17_0
1_18_0
1_19_0
1_1_0
1_1_1
1_20_0
1_21_0
1_22_0
1_23_0
1_24_0
1_25_0
1_2_0
1_4_0
1_8_0
1_9_0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6301.json"