The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-0780 advisory.

    - don't accept server/peer packets with zero origin timestamp (CVE-2015-8138)
    - fix crash with reslist command (CVE-2015-7977, CVE-2015-7978)
    - fix crash with invalid logconfig command (CVE-2015-5194)
    - fix crash when referencing disabled statistic type (CVE-2015-5195)
    - don't hang in sntp with crafted reply (CVE-2015-5219)
    - don't crash with crafted autokey packet (CVE-2015-7691, CVE-2015-7692,       CVE-2015-7702)
    - fix memory leak with autokey (CVE-2015-7701)
    - don't allow setting driftfile and pidfile remotely (CVE-2015-7703)
    - don't crash in ntpq with crafted packet (CVE-2015-7852)
    - check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet (CVE-2015-7704)

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.

Detections

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Oracle Linux 6 : ntp (ELSA-2016-0780)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91151

Version 2.16