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SUSE: 2014-001 Moderate: NTP DDoS Reflection Attack Advisory

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Calendar Grey January 20, 2014
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Protect your NTP deployments from potential DDoS amplification threats by reviewing this guidance on necessary adjustments to your settings.
The "monlist" command of the NTP protocol is currently abused in a DDoS The "monlist" command of the NTP protocol is currently abused in a DDoS reflection attack

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate attack configuration DDoS NTP

References

Cross CVE-2013-5211

Content of this advisory:

1) security vulnerability resolved:

- DDoS reflection attacks in ntpd

problem description

2) solution/workaround

3) special instructions and notes

4) package location and checksums

5) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:

- none

6) standard appendix (further information)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate attack configuration DDoS NTP

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