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.
libisc
, libevent
, and libopts
.
libisc
, we already only use a portion of the original library. We've found and fixed bugs in the original implementation (and offered the patches to ISC), and plan to see what has changed since we last upgraded the code. libisc
is generally not installed, and when it it we usually only see the static libisc.a
file installed. Until we know for sure that the bugs we've found and fixed are fixed upstream, we're better off with the copy we are using.
libevent
was the only production version available until recently, and we've been requiring version 2 for a long time. But if the build system has at least version 2 of libevent
installed, we'll use the version that is installed on the system. Otherwise, we provide a copy of libevent
that we know works.
libopts
is provided by GNU AutoGen, and that library and package undergoes frequent API version updates. The version of autogen used to generate the tables for the code must match the API version in libopts
. AutoGen can be ... difficult to build and install, and very few developers really need it. So we have it on our build and development machines, and we provide the specific version of the libopts
code in the distribution to make sure that the proper API version of libopts
is available.