It was discovered that sntp program would hang in an infinite loop when a crafted NTP packet was received, related to the conversion of the precision value in the packet to double.
Upstream fix: http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-dev/?PAGE=patch&REV=51786731Gr4-NOrTBC_a_uXO4wuGhg https://github.com/ntp-project/ntp/commit/5f295cd05c3c136d39f5b3e500a2d781bdbb59c8
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1256680]
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14211
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14212
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14213
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14213
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14211
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14212
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ntp-4.2.6p5-34.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2016:0780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2583 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html