Apple has a fix for a vulnerability in the ntp implementation in OS X was released. Via the leak could exploits a buffer overflow cause, and so on away own code on a Mac to run.
The ‘OS X NTP Security Update is available for Mac systems which is version 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, and 10.8 Mountain Lion to run. It goes according to Apple to get a patch against a critical vulnerability in the software that the Network Time Protocol service for OS X delivers’.
Googles Security Team discovered earlier this month that attackers are using the network time protocol daemon buffer overflows could generate, and then their own code on affected systems.
The update would be downloaded in the background as users of this set so have and different is this as an update to the Mac Store to see. It would have to be the first security update that Apple automatically pushes. Users should have the following ntp versions should have after the commit of the update, see using Terminal after entering what /usr/sbin/ntpd: Mountain Lion: ntp-77.1.1, Mavericks: ntp-88.1.1, and Yosemite: ntp-92.5.1.