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HIGH7.5

GHSA-qwhm-h7v3-mrjx

Improper handling of NTS cookie length that could crash the ntpd-rs server

Details

### 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

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Affected packages

crates.io/ntpd
Introduced in: 0.3.0Fixed in: 0.3.3

Upgrade ntpd to 0.3.3 or newer (ecosystem crates.io).

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