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Multiple NTP vulnerabilities with potential root access

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Multiple NTP vulnerabilities with potential root access

Postby Zancarius » Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:50 pm

As of Dec. 18-19, multiple NTP vulnerabilities were disclosed including at least one that may provide an attacker with an exploit pathway for gaining root-level access on a machine:

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/Se ... tl_putdata

Updating to NTP 4.2.8 or later is recommended.
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