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.

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Are you using Autokey in production? If so, please contact Harlan - he's got some questions for you.

Notes:

• The cookie is not persistant
• The session information is stored in files under data/.sessions/
• Old session files should be deleted by a cron job
• Identification string using for session is:
  • time (second resolution) + random number
• If url parameter stickskin is present, its value sets the session value for SKIN i.e. you then stick on this skin. Get back to defalt skin with stickskin=.

• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Holds session information on server, session identified from sessionId stored in non-persistant cookie
• Set DEBUG = 0