NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
An attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition, escalate privileges, or remotely execute arbitrary code.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All NTP users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/ntp-4.2.8_p13"