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tedunangst on Dec 19, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Multiple vulnerabilities released in NTP

Pretty persistent attacker. It should take something like 100 days to push the clock off by one day.

hannob on Dec 19, 2014 [–]

Ubuntu accepts arbitrary time jumps, the attack was presented live at BH with an Ubuntu System.

protomyth on Dec 20, 2014 | [–]

so you can see Ubuntu so it is 03:14 UTC on 19 January 2038? That might be bad, how big is their time_t?

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