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Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 22:37:01 -0800
From: Xin Li <delphij@...phij.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE to the ntp monlist DDoS issue?

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On 12/30/13, 4:46 AM, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> There's a recent rash of DDoS involving the monlist functionality 
> in older ntp.org ntp.  Has anyone thought about assigning a CVE to 
> this?  It looks like the issue may have been addressed back in
> 2010, but only in the context of ntp.org's "dev" tree, not
> "stable".
> 
> http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532 
> https://cert.litnet.lt/en/docs/ntp-distributed-reflection-dos-attacks
>
> 
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hackers-spend-christmas-break-launching-large-scale-ntp-reflection-attacks

Both as a mitigation to this attack and a best practice, I think all
public facing ntpd should configured to have 'nomodify nopeer noquery
notrap' as default restrictions.  Something like:

===
restrict default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap
restrict -6 default nomodify nopeer noquery notrap
restrict 127.0.0.1
restrict -6 ::1
restrict 127.127.1.0
===

Cheers,

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