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/2015/10/21/Vulnerabilities-Identified-Network-Time-Protocol-Daemon-ntpd ] 
10/21/2015 11:10 PM EDT 
Original release date: October 21, 2015 | Last revised: October 22, 2015

The Network Time Foundation's NTP Project has released an update addressing multiple vulnerabilities in ntpd. 
Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Users and administrators are encouraged to review NTP Security Notice Page [ 
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#Recent_Vulnerabilities ] for more details and US-CERT Security Tip 
ST04-015 [ https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/tips/ST04-015 ] for information on DoS attacks.

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