Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NTP, the worst of which could lead to remote code execution.

Affected Packages
Package net-misc/ntp on all architectures
Affected versions < 4.2.8_p11
Unaffected versions >= 4.2.8_p11

Background

NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

References

CVE-2018-7170
CVE-2018-7182
CVE-2018-7183
CVE-2018-7184
CVE-2018-7185