Isaac E. Cohen

The issue allows remote attackers to bypass security restrictions by exploiting the failure to correctly implement the threshold limitation for the '-g' option. This can be achieved by responding to an unspecified number of requests from trusted sources, potentially allowing an attacker to set NTP to an arbitrary time or alter the time by up to 900 seconds, and leveraging a resulting denial of service. An attacker could exploit this using man-in-the-middle techniques to intercept NTP traffic and make multiple steps larger than the panic threshold.

The rate limiting feature in NTP allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via a large number of crafted requests. This issue exists due to insufficient input validation, which may allow a remote attacker to cause partial disruption of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information by sending a large number of reverse requests.

The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a number of crafted "KOD" messages.