CVE-2025-58066
Description
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in ntpd-rs where an attacker can induce a message storm between two NTP servers running ntpd-rs. Since ntpd-rs version 1.2.0, when configured as a server, incorrectly responded to all NTP messages sent to the server's port with a time reply, including to responses from other servers. As a consequence, a message with a spoofed IP address of another server could cause two servers running ntpd-rs to continually respond to each other, consuming significant amounts of resources.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Amplification; DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Resource Consumption (Other)
System resources can be quickly consumed leading to poor application performance or system crash. This may affect network performance and could be used to attack other systems and applications relying on network performance.
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