NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to use in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

A new set of mode 6 vulnerabilities has been discovered and, while these vulnerabilities can be reduced by making sure you have restrict default … noquery in your ntp.conf file, the best and most complete way to avoid these vulnerabilities is to install and deploy ntp-4.2.8 which was released on 18 December 2014.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

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Code Audit

The NTP Codebase undergoes security and defect audits from a number of sources, including:

Additionally, a number of project developers and interested parties in the Internet Community routinely scan the code looking for problems.