Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 / 9.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-867-1)

Robin Park and Dmitri Vinokurov discovered a logic error in ntpd. A remote attacker could send a crafted NTP mode 7 packet with a spoofed IP address of an affected server and cause a denial of service via CPU and disk resource consumption. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the...