NTP Distributed Reflective Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5209)
Publish date: July 27, 2016
Severity: CRITICAL
DESCRIPTION
A NTP Server can be tricked to send responses to a spoofed IP address which can result in heavy network traffic coming to an arbitrary server on an arbitrary port. By doing this, the attacker can achieve a reflected DDoS attack on the victim server.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1006239
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