NTP 4.2.4p8 Released

[NTP Public Services Project]

Redwood City, CA - 2009/12/08 - The NTP Public Services Project
(http://support.ntp.org/) is pleased to announce that NTP 4.2.4p8,
a Point Release of the NTP Reference Implementation from the
NTP Project, is now available at http://www.ntp.org/downloads.html and
http://support.ntp.org/download.

NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a
network to a common timebase (usually UTC).

File-size: 3389646 bytes

MD5 sum: fe137056e7e611798a46971a783567ce

This release fixes the following high-severity vulnerability:

* [Sec 1331] DoS with mode 7 packets - CVE-2009-3563.
http://bugs.ntp.org/1331

More information about this vulnerability is available at
http://support.ntp.org/security

This is a strongly recommended upgrade.

Please report any bugs, issues, or desired enhancements at
http://bugs.ntp.org/.

The NTP (Network Time Protocol) Public Services Project, which is
hosted by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (http://www.isc.org/),
provides support and additional development resources for the
Reference Implementation of NTP produced by the NTP Project
(http://www.ntp.org/).

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