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ICMP Timestamp Request Remote Date Disclosure

This script is Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Tenable Network Security, Inc.

FamilyGeneral
Nessus Plugin ID10114 (icmp_timestamp.nasl)
Bugtraq ID
CVE IDCVE-1999-0524

Description:
Synopsis :

It is possible to determine the exact time set on the remote host.

Description :

The remote host answers to an ICMP timestamp request. This allows an
attacker to know the date which is set on your machine.

This may help him to defeat all your time based authentication
protocols.

Solution :

Filter out the ICMP timestamp requests (13), and the outgoing ICMP
timestamp replies (14).

Risk factor :

None
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