NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.
ntp-4.2.8p15
was released on 23 June 2020. It addresses 1 medium-severity security issue in ntpd, and provides 13 non-security bugfixes over 4.2.8p13.
Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.Are you using Autokey in production? If so, please contact Harlan - he's got some questions for you.
snprintf()
in mx4200_send()
(Low) snprintf()/vsnprintf()
incorrectly, which can lead to an out-of-bounds memory write due to an improper handling of the return value of snprintf()/vsnprintf()
. Since the return value is used as an iterator and it can be larger than the buffer’s size, it is possible for the iterator to point somewhere outside of the allocated buffer space. This results in an out-of-bound memory write. This behavior can be leveraged to overwrite a saved instruction pointer on the stack and gain control over the execution flow. During testing it was not possible to identify any malicious usage for this vulnerability. Specifically, no way for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability was ultimately unveiled. However, it has the potential to be exploited, so the code should be fixed.
ntpd
instances, and auto-restart ntpd
(without -g
) if it stops running.