Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

If a vulnerable instance of ntpd on Windows receives a crafted malicious packet that is "too big", ntpd will stop working.

AVG-81 ntp 4.2.8.p8-1 4.2.8.p9-1 High Not affected

http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3110

This issue only affects Windows systems.

Mitigation:
Implement a firewall rule blocking oversized NTP packets.