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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
Vendor: Fedora Project
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,
ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package.
The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.

Packages

ntp-4.2.6p5-34.fc23.i686 [554 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2015-10-22):
- check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet (CVE-2015-7704)
- allow only one step larger than panic threshold with -g (CVE-2015-5300)
- fix memory leak with autokey (CVE-2015-7701)
- don't crash with crafted autokey packet (CVE-2015-7691, CVE-2015-7692,
  CVE-2015-7702)
- don't crash in ntpq with crafted packet (CVE-2015-7852)
- don't mobilize passive association with crypto NAK (CVE-2015-7871)
- start ntpdate service after nss-lookup.target
- use weak dependency for timedatex on Fedora 24 and later

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