Bug#4898: libc5: Uninitialized call to adjtimex

[Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

Martin Schulze writes:
> 
> Package: libc5
> Version: 5.2.18-11
> 
> Forwarded bug from Ulrich Windl <ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de:
> 
> In file libc/sysdeps/linux/__ntpgttm.c:
> 
> __ntp_gettime calls adjtimex with random values in struct timex
> (timex.modes not cleared).

This holds for all libc version up to 5.4.9. At least the function
__ntp_gettime did not change in these versions. I take it Ulrich will
try to get it into the upstream release. 

Michael
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