systemd: Do not restart
It is important to specify -g on the command line to allow NTP to correct the clock on boot. However, if Restart=yes is set, a malicious (or broken) server could send the incorrect time, trip the panic threshold, and when ntpd restarts, serve it the incorrect time (which would be accepted). See page 16 here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/vangundy-ntp-security.pdf This can probably be done by a MITM attacker too, making this essentially the same as CVE-2015-5300.
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