The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-2231 advisory.

    - check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet (CVE-2015-7704)
    - allow only one step larger than panic threshold with -g (CVE-2015-5300)
    - validate lengths of values in extension fields (CVE-2014-9297)
    - drop packets with spoofed source address ::1 (CVE-2014-9298)
    - reject packets without MAC when authentication is enabled (CVE-2015-1798)
    - protect symmetric associations with symmetric key against DoS attack (CVE-2015-1799)
    - fix generation of MD5 keys with ntp-keygen on big-endian systems (CVE-2015-3405)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 7 : ntp (ELSA-2015-2231)

high Nessus Plugin ID 87030

Version 1.18