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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Unit Testing - Yan

• Student: YanZhang
• Mentors: AmarTakhar
• GSoC: GSoC Project Page

Summary

This task will be focus on the ntpd codes that are actually working but not covered by the unit test cases.

For the first peroid, I will find them out, and for the second peroid, I will write unit test cases for these codes.

Related Items: UnitTestFramework, NtpdFunctionMap, GSoC2011UnitTesting, UnitTestingNotes

Tasks

• Get familiar with gtest framwork 1.5 and other tools like gcov and lcov
• Get the coverage information of ntpd program
• Find out the what parts of NTP aren't tested, maybe ntpd or libntp
• Write unit test cases for parts not tested
• Find, report and fix bugs if there are any
• ...

Timeline

Date	Task	Description	% Done
05-27	Community Bonding	Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects.
06-17	Coding Begins	Students begin coding for their GSoC projects
07-29	BO Midterm Evals	Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations.
08-02	EO Midterm Evals	Mid-term evaluations deadline.
09-16	Wrap-up	Suggested "Pencils Down" date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc.
09-23	Firm "Pencils Down"	Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google.
09-27	Final Evaluation	Final Evaluations Deadline
09-27	Code Samples	Students begin uploading code samples
10-01	Final Results	Final Results Announced

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