[ntp:hackers] NTP Development Snapshot 4.2.5p162 Released

NTP Public Services Project webmaster at ntp.org
Thu Apr 9 16:31:45 UTC 2009


NTP Development Snapshot 4.2.5p162 is now available for download.

Security Updates:

* [Sec 1144] limited buffer overflow in ntpq.  CVE-2009-0159
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1144
* [Sec 1149] use SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Windows
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1149

Bug Fixes:

* [Bug 1014] Enable building with VC9 (in Visual Studio 2008,
  Visual C++ 2008, or SDK)
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1014
* [Bug 1141] refclock_report missing braces cause spurious "peer event:
  clock clk_unspec" log entries
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1141
* [Bug 774] parsesolaris.c does not compile under the new Solaris
   http://bugs.ntp.org/774
* [Bug 1148] NMEA reference clock improvements
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1148
* [Bug 1117] Deferred interface binding under Windows works only correctly
  if FORCE_DNSRETRY is defined
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1117
* [Bug 216] New interpolation scheme for Windows eliminates 1ms jitter
   http://bugs.ntp.org/216
* [Bug 1131] UDP sockets should not use SIGPOLL on Solaris.
   http://bugs.ntp.org/1131

Other Changes:

* Mitigation and PPS cleanup from Dave Mills.
* Include (4.2.4p7-RC2)
* remove a bunch of #ifdef SYS_WINNT from portable code
* 64-bit time_t cleanup for building on newer Windows compilers
* Only set CMOS clock during ntpd exit on Windows if the computer is
  shutting down or restarting.
* remove deleted gsoc_sntp/utilities.o from repository so that .o build
  products can be cleaned up without corrupting the repository.
* Include (4.2.4p7-RC1)
* build system email address cleanup
* DPRINTF macro made safer, always evaluates to a statement and will not
  misassociate an else which follows the macro.
* Documentation updates from Dave Mills.

Tarball:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p162.tar.gz 
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p162.tar.gz

MD5 sum:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p162.tar.gz.md5
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.5p162.tar.gz.md5

Complete ChangeLog:

http://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev
ftp://archive.ntp.org/ntp4/ChangeLog-dev

Please report any bugs, issues, or desired enhancements at
http://bugs.ntp.org/.



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