NTP is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to properly handle certain incoming network packets. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause the application to consume excessive CPU resources and fill disk space with log messages.

Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/568372
• http://www.ntp.org/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37255

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Updated on 2017-03-28