4.2.8p9 Release Announcement

Last update: June 28, 2022 21:06 UTC (1f97faf40)

NTF’s NTP Project is releasing ntp-4.2.8p9 which addresses:

1 HIGH severity vulnerability that only affects Windows
2 MEDIUM severity vulnerabilities
2 MEDIUM/LOW severity vulnerabilities
5 LOW severity vulnerabilities
28 other non-security fixes and improvements

All of the security issues in this release are listed in VU#633847.

ntp-4.2.8p9 is currently scheduled to be released on 21 November 2016.

3119: Trap crash / CVE-2016-9311
- Reported by Matthew Van Gundy of Cisco ASIG.
3118: Mode 6 unauthenticated trap information disclosure and DDoS vector / CVE-2016-9310
- Reported by Matthew Van Gundy of Cisco ASIG.
3114: Broadcast Mode Replay Prevention DoS / CVE-2016-7427
- Reported by Matthew Van Gundy of Cisco ASIG.
3113: Broadcast Mode Poll Interval Enforcement DoS / CVE-2016-7428
- Reported by Matthew Van Gundy of Cisco ASIG.
3110: Windows: ntpd DoS by oversized UDP packet / CVE-2016-9312
- Reported by Robert Pajak of ABB.
3102: Regression: 010-origin: Zero Origin Timestamp Bypass / CVE-2016-7431
- Reported by Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra of Boston University.
3082: Null pointer dereference in _IO_str_init_static_internal() / CVE-2016-7434
- Reported by Magnus Stubman.
3072: Interface selection attack / CVE-2016-7429
- Reported by Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat.
3071: Client rate limiting and server responses / CVE-2016-7426
- Reported by Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat.
3067: Reboot sync calculation problem / CVE-2016-7433
- Reported independently by Brian Utterback of Oracle, and by Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra of Boston University.

ENotification of these issues were delivered to our Institutional members on a rolling basis as they were reported and as progress was made.

Timeline:

2016 Nov 21: Public release
2016 Nov 15: CERT given our software release notification
2016 Nov 14: Early Access Program Release: Premier and Partner Institutional Members
: Notification to Institutional Members
: Report received