Fedora alert FEDORA-2014-17361 (ntp)
| From: | updates@fedoraproject.org | |
| To: | package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ntp-4.2.6p5-19.fc20 | |
| Date: | Mon, 22 Dec 2014 02:37:36 +0000 | |
| Message-ID: | <20141222023742.BCC2A60CE4A7@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org> |
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2014-17361 2014-12-20 07:15:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : ntp Product : Fedora 20 Version : 4.2.6p5 Release : 19.fc20 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, ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package. The documentation is in the ntp-doc package. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Security fix for CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9296 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Dec 19 2014 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-19 - don't generate weak control key for resolver (CVE-2014-9293) - don't generate weak MD5 keys in ntp-keygen (CVE-2014-9294) - fix buffer overflows via specially-crafted packets (CVE-2014-9295) - don't mobilize passive association when authentication fails (CVE-2014-9296) * Mon Dec 9 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-18 - fix calculation of root dispersion (#1037981) - refresh peers on routing updates (#1028176) - drop patch allowing -p and -u options to be used twice (#639101) - remove unnecessary IPv6 restrict line from default ntp.conf - replace hardening build flags with _hardened_build -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #1176032 - CVE-2014-9293 ntp: automatic generation of weak default key in config_auth() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176032 [ 2 ] Bug #1176035 - CVE-2014-9294 ntp: ntp-keygen uses weak random number generator and seed when generating MD5 keys https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176035 [ 3 ] Bug #1176037 - CVE-2014-9295 ntp: Multiple buffer overflows via specially-crafted packets https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176037 [ 4 ] Bug #1176040 - CVE-2014-9296 ntp: receive() missing return on error https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176040 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...