[pkg-ntp-maintainers] ntp crashes if too many interfaces

[Scott Barker]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
Severity: important

If there are more than 512 interfaces, ntp will crash because it
declares a static array of MAXINTERFACES (=512) and scans all interfaces
to populate this array. There should be a means of limiting the
interfaces that ntp will use.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.iso8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                5.2-2        GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8c-4     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                     4.29         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

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