Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-7703. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2015-7703. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2015-7703 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage.

It was found that NTP's :config command could be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals).

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-7703. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2015-7703. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2015-7703 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage.

ELSA-2016-2583: ntp security and bug fix update (MODERATE)