When ntpd receives a server response on a socket that corresponds to a different interface than was used for the request, the peer structure is updated to use the interface for new requests. If ntpd is running on a host with multiple interfaces in separate networks and the operating system doesn't check source address in received packets (e.g. rp_filter on Linux is set to 0), an attacker that knows the address of the source can send a packet with spoofed source address which will cause ntpd to select wrong interface for the source and prevent it from sending new requests until the list of interfaces is refreshed, which happens on routing changes or every 5 minutes by default. If the attack is repeated often enough (once per second), ntpd will not be able to synchronize with the source. External References: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3072
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1397351]
Mitigation: If you are going to configure your OS to disable source address checks, also configure your firewall configuration to control what interfaces can receive packets from what networks.
Is an RPM released with fix for this. I haven't seen one @ http://mirror.centos.org. If not released, what is ETA for same? Thanks, Keyur
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2017:0252 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0252.html