[CentOS] NTP Vulnerability?

Eero Volotinen
Sat, 20 Dec 2014 03:02:17 -0000

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9295

2014-12-20 4:42 GMT+02:00 listmail <listmail at entertech.com>:

> I just saw this:
>
> https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-14-353-01
>
> which includes this:
> " A remote attacker can send a carefully crafted packet that can
overflow a
> stack buffer and potentially allow malicious code to be executed with the
> privilege level of the ntpd process. All NTP4 releases before 4.2.8 are
> vulnerable."
>
> "This vulnerability is resolved with NTP-stable4.2.8 on December 19,
2014."
>
> I guess no one has had time to respond yet. Wonder if I should shut down my
> external NTP services as a precaution?
>
> --Bill