[perlgeek]

> And what’s worse, malicious threat actors can manipulate time synchronization protocols in many cases to trigger this vulnerability at the time of their choosing.

If you switch to 64 bit timestamps, and the network protocol supports dates > 2038, can you then just trigger the rollover bugs by pretending it's 2*64 - 1 seconds after epoch start?

Also, if the actions are potentially so severe, and NTP (or whatever is used) so vulnerable, why haven't we seen many such attacks in the wild?

Update: to be clear I'm not arguing that there isn't a problem, I've already run into it myself. I'm trying to understand how severe it is, how exploitable, and how robust a solution could be.