Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread Rob
A C agcarver+...@acarver.net wrote: I saw the advisory about the potential issues in ntpd before 4.2.8 but I don't quite understand whether it affects a pure client (not serving time to the outside) or not. If the issue does affect client-only operation, what can be done for systems that

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
A C wrote: I saw the advisory about the potential issues in ntpd before 4.2.8 but I don't quite understand whether it affects a pure client (not serving time to the outside) or not. If the issue does affect client-only operation, what can be done for systems that can't be upgraded? As far as

[ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.8 for Windows

2014-12-20 Thread Martin Burnicki
Folks, ntp 4.2.8 has been released and includes a few security fixes. Unfortunatly these fixes which have been included after 4.2.7p485-RC break building the original tarball for Windows. I have a temporary fix for this and compiled 4.2.8 for Windows. A ZIP file with the binaries is

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread David Woolley
On 20/12/14 09:22, Martin Burnicki wrote: As far as I understand the reports on bugzilla the main vulnerabilities are in functions where signed packets (symmetric key or autokey) are received/checked, or dynamic/remote configuration via ntpq and/or ntpdc is enabled, which, as far as I know

Re: [ntp:questions] NTP 4.2.8 for Windows

2014-12-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
Thanks *very* much, Martin! H ___ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-12-20, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: On 20/12/14 09:22, Martin Burnicki wrote: As far as I understand the reports on bugzilla the main vulnerabilities are in functions where signed packets (symmetric key or autokey) are received/checked, or dynamic/remote

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread William Unruh
On 2014-12-20, William Unruh un...@invalid.ca wrote: On 2014-12-20, David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: On 20/12/14 09:22, Martin Burnicki wrote: As far as I understand the reports on bugzilla the main vulnerabilities are in functions where signed packets (symmetric key or

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread A C
On 2014-12-20 01:30, David Woolley wrote: On 20/12/14 09:22, Martin Burnicki wrote: As far as I understand the reports on bugzilla the main vulnerabilities are in functions where signed packets (symmetric key or autokey) are received/checked, or dynamic/remote configuration via ntpq and/or

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread A C
On 2014-12-20 01:22, Martin Burnicki wrote: A C wrote: I saw the advisory about the potential issues in ntpd before 4.2.8 but I don't quite understand whether it affects a pure client (not serving time to the outside) or not. If the issue does affect client-only operation, what can be done

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread David Woolley
On 20/12/14 19:58, William Unruh wrote: Is it an ntp packet (ie a time exchange packet)? is it a control packet (eg ntpq type packet?) or what? Ie, unless you use crypto, these two look like they might be dangerous. Both routines only process NTP type 6 packets, i.e. nptq.

Re: [ntp:questions] What to do for clients less than 4.2.8?

2014-12-20 Thread Rob
David Woolley david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid wrote: On 20/12/14 19:58, William Unruh wrote: Is it an ntp packet (ie a time exchange packet)? is it a control packet (eg ntpq type packet?) or what? Ie, unless you use crypto, these two look like they might be dangerous. Both routines only

[ntp:questions] 4.2.8 can't find timepps.h or can it?

2014-12-20 Thread A C
I'm trying to compile the new 4.2.8 tarball since the Debian source packages are broken and unable to compile due to various issues. I downloaded the new 4.2.8 from ntp.org, unpacked and ran the following: ./configure --enable-ATOM The script says it's unable to find sys/timepps.h however: #

Re: [ntp:questions] 4.2.8 can't find timepps.h or can it?

2014-12-20 Thread Harlan Stenn
A C writes: I'm trying to compile the new 4.2.8 tarball since the Debian source packages are broken and unable to compile due to various issues. I downloaded the new 4.2.8 from ntp.org, unpacked and ran the following: ./configure --enable-ATOM The script says it's unable to find