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                       The U.S. Department of Energy
                     Computer Incident Advisory Center
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                             INFORMATION BULLETIN

                   Network Time Protocol (NTP) Vulnerabilities

April 17, 2001 18:00 GMT                                          Number L-071
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PROBLEM:       The Network Time Protocol (NTP) codes of certain vendors are 
               vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack. 
PLATFORM:      Hewlett-Packard:
                 HP9000 Series 700/800 running HP-UX releases 10.XX and 11.XX. 
               Red Hat:
                 Red Hat Linux 6.2 and earlier (for xntpd). 
                 Red Hat Linux 7.0 (for ntpd). 
               NetBSD:
                 NetBSD prior to 1.4. 
                 NetBSD 1.4 and 1.5. 
                 NetBSD-CURRENT prior to 2001-04-05.
               FreeBSD:
                 FreeBSD 3.x (all releases).
                 FreeBSD 4.x (all releases).
                 FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE and 4.2-STABLE prior to the correction 
                   date 2001-04-06. 
                 FreeBSD ports collection prior to the correction date 
                   20001-04-06. 
               Caldera:
                 OpenLinux 2.3 (All packages previous to xntp-3.5.93e-5)
                 OpenLinux eServer 2.3.1 and OpenLinux eBuilder (All packages 
                   previous to xntp-3.5.93e-5)
                 OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 (All packages previous to 
                   xntp-4.0.97-2)
DAMAGE:        A remote intruder can use the buffer overflow to cause the NTP 
               code to crash. It is possible that the buffer overflow can be 
               used to execute arbritrary code. If the NTP daemon is running 
               as root, then this could lead to a root compromise. 
SOLUTION:      Obtain your particular vendor’s directions from the vendor’s 
               web site and follow the vendor’s suggestions.
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VULNERABILITY  The risk is HIGH. The listed vendors have determined that their 
ASSESSMENT:    codes are vulnerable. The vulnerabilities and detailed exploits 
               have been discussed in public forums. 
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http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/l-071.shtml
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CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, 
NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Caldera for the information contained in this bulletin.
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