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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-0547 (ntp)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0547 2009-01-14 23:38:34 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ntp Product : Fedora 9 Version : 4.2.4p6 Release : 1.fc9 URL : http://www.ntp.org Summary : The NTP daemon and utilities Description : The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's time with another reference time source. This package includes ntpd (a daemon which continuously adjusts system time) and utilities used to query and configure the ntpd daemon. Perl scripts ntp-wait and ntptrace are in the ntp-perl package and the ntpdate program is in the ntpdate package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes CVE-2009-0021: NTP 4.2.4 before 4.2.4p5 and 4.2.5 before 4.2.5p150 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jan 12 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p6-1.fc9 - update to 4.2.4p6 (CVE-2009-0021) * Wed Oct 8 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p5-2.fc9 - don't write drift file upon exit - run ntpq with full path in ntp-wait script * Fri Aug 29 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p5-1 - update to 4.2.4p5 - add support for fast interface updates * Mon Jul 28 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p4-7 - reload resolv.conf after temporary failure in name resolution (#456743) - use clock_gettime - make subpackages for perl scripts and ntpdate (#452097, #456116) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #476807 - CVE-2009-0021 ntp incorrectly checks for malformed signatures https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476807 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ntp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann... (Log in to post comments)
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