A Denial of Service condition in ntpd can cause excessive CPU or bandwidth consumption.
Package | net-misc/ntp on all architectures |
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Affected versions | < 4.2.4_p7-r1 |
Unaffected versions | >= 4.2.4_p7-r1 |
NTP is a set of the Network Time Protocol programs.
Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered that ntp_request.c in ntpd does not handle MODE_PRIVATE packets correctly, causing a continuous exchange of MODE_PRIVATE error responses between two NTP daemons or causing high CPU load on a single host.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially crafted MODE_PRIVATE packet, allowing for a Denial of Service condition (CPU and bandwidth consumption).
There is no known workaround at this time.
All NTP users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p7-r1"
Release date
January 03, 2010
Latest revision
January 03, 2010: 01
Severity
normal
Exploitable
remote
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