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Fedora alert FEDORA-2009-13121 (ntp)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: ntp-4.2.4p7-2.fc10
Date:  Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:32:53 +0000
Message-ID:  <20091211183253.CDEB310F85C@bastion2.fedora.phx.redhat.com>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-13121 2009-12-11 16:41:49 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ntp Product : Fedora 10 Version : 4.2.4p7 Release : 2.fc10 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 possible DoS with mode 7 packets. (CVE-2009-3563) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Wed Dec 9 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p7-2 - fix DoS with mode 7 packets (#545557, CVE-2009-3563) * Tue May 19 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p7-1 - update to 4.2.4p7 (CVE-2009-1252, CVE-2009-0159) - don't log STA_MODE changes - check status in condrestart (#481261) - convert COPYRIGHT to UTF-8 * Mon Jan 12 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.4p6-1 - update to 4.2.4p6 (CVE-2009-0021) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #531213 - CVE-2009-3563 ntpd: DoS with mode 7 packets (VU#568372) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531213 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...


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