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ntp - The NTP daemon and utilities

Website: http://www.ntp.org
License: (MIT and BSD and BSD with advertising) and GPLv2
Description:
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with another reference time source. This package includes ntpd
(a daemon which continuously adjusts system time) and utilities used
to query and configure the ntpd daemon.

Perl scripts ntp-wait and ntptrace are in the ntp-perl package and
the ntpdate program is in the ntpdate package. The documentation is
in the ntp-doc package.

Packages

ntp-4.2.6p5-5.el6.x86_64 [595 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2015-04-28):
- reject packets without MAC when authentication is enabled (CVE-2015-1798)
- protect symmetric associations with symmetric key against DoS attack
  (CVE-2015-1799)
- fix generation of MD5 keys with ntp-keygen on big-endian systems
  (CVE-2015-3405)
- log when stepping clock for leap second or ignoring it with -x (#1204625)

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