Slackware: 2018-229-01 Moderate: Ntp Command-Line Processing Risk

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8p12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release improves on one security fix in ntpd: LOW/MEDIUM: Sec 3012: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack While fixed in ntp-4.2.8p7 and with significant additional protections for this issue in 4.2.8p11, ntp-4.2.8p12 includes a fix for an edge case in the new noepeer support. Originally reported by Matt Van Gundy of Cisco. Edge-case hole reported by Martin Burnicki of Meinberg. And fixes another security issue in ntpq and ntpdc: LOW: Sec 3505: The openhost() function used during command-line hostname processing by ntpq and ntpdc can write beyond its buffer limit, which could allow an attacker to achieve code execution or escalate to higher privileges via a long string as the argument for an IPv4 or IPv6 command-line parameter. NOTE: It is unclear whether there are any common situations in which ntpq