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Commit 8459d15f authored by Richard Laager's avatar Richard Laager Committed by Eric S. Raymond
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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.
parent 41be3c20
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