Hi mate,

Have a look here. Maybe you can find something interesting. Not sure if is
your case

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/current-activity/2015/10/21/Vulnerabilities-Identified-Network-Time-Protocol-Daemon-ntpd

Federici
On 24 Oct 2015 07:43, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My understanding of kernel timekeeping is next to nothing, but something
> very strange happened yesterday that looked like it might be an attack and
> I'm wondering if it's happened to anyone else.
>
> The first symptom was that ntpd lost synchronisation. At this point I
> didn't know why so I did things at random; consequently I don't know what
> state the kernel time variables were in.
>
> One of the things I did was restart ntpd (a few times) and it had no
> trouble contacting servers but refused to synchronise. Eventually I figured
> out that my computer's clock was running too fast; gaining about 300
> milliseconds every minute. If I understand things correctly this is well
> in excess of what can be adjusted with ntptime, although I did try.
>
> Eventually I crossed my fingers and rebooted the machine, hoping that
> the kernel was just in a strange state that I was too ignorant to find.
>
> This worked.
>
> Now that it was fixed I went over the events and found (on the pool's
> monitoring) that my computer started racing ahead at a very specific
> moment,
> and there was something in the logs at that moment:
>
> Oct 23 19:06:01 atlas inetd[163]: accept (for time): Software caused
> connection abort
>
> Until this happened I had allowed TCP and UDP connections to inetd's
> internal
> daytime and time services. I didn't think there would be a problem with
> this, but I've now blocked it.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this before? Could it have been an attack?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
>         - Joel
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