The vulnerability of the Datum Programmable Time Server (DPTS) refclock implementation of the Network Time Sync protocol allows a perpetrator to cause the ntpd daemon to fail by using the created device /dev/datum.

The vulnerability of the Datum Programmable Time Server DPTS’s refclock implementation of the Network Time Protocol NTP is related to the output of operations that exceed the buffer limits in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a attacker to cause a failure in the ntpd daemon by usi...