GHSA-qwhm-h7v3-mrjx
Improper handling of NTS cookie length that could crash the ntpd-rs server
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
ntpd-rs does not validate the length of NTS cookies in received NTP packets to the server. An attacker can crash the server by sending a specially crafted NTP packet containing a cookie shorter than what the server expects. The server also crashes when it is not configured to handle NTS packets.
ntpd-rs running purely as an ntp client is not affected.
### Patches
The issue was caused by improper slice indexing. The indexing operations were replaced by safer alternatives that do not crash the ntpd-rs server process but instead properly handle the error condition. A patch was released in version 0.3.3
### Workarounds
ntpd-rs running purely as an ntp client is not affected. By default, ntpd-rs packages are not configured to run as a server.
For machines where serving the time is required, there is no known workaround. Users are recommended to upgrade ntpd-rs as soon as possible.
### References
https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/pull/752
We would like to thank @mlichvar for identifying this issue
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.