Vulnerabilities Identified in Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd)

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Vulnerabilities Identified in Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) [ 
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/04/08/Vulnerabilities-Identified-Network-Time-Protocol-Daemon-ntpd ] 
04/08/2015 05:47 PM EDT 
Original release date: April 08, 2015

The Network Time Foundation's NTP Project has released an update addressing multiple vulnerabilities in ntpd. 
Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack or cause a denial of 
service condition.

Users and administrators are encouraged to review Vulnerability Note VU#374268 [ http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/374268 
] for more information and update to NTP 4.2.8p2 [ http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html ] if necessary.

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