NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

ntp-4.2.8p8 was released on 02 June 2016 and addresses 1 high- and 4 low-severity security issues, 4 bugfixes, and contains other improvements over 4.2.8p7.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

This is the NTP Public Services Project Bugzilla which provides tracking of development issues (e.g. bugs, enhancements) for the Network Time Protocol (NTP) Reference Implementation produced by the NTP Project.

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