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ntp: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):ntp CVE #(s):CVE-2015-5194 CVE-2015-5195 CVE-2015-5196 CVE-2015-5219
Created:September 9, 2015 Updated:November 11, 2016
Description: From the Mageia advisory:

It was found that ntpd could crash due to an uninitialized variable when processing malformed logconfig configuration commands, for example,
ntpq -c ":config logconfig a" (CVE-2015-5194).

It was found that ntpd exits with a segmentation fault when a statistics type that was not enabled during compilation (e.g. timingstats) is referenced by the statistics or filegen configuration command, for example,
ntpq -c ':config statistics timingstats'
ntpq -c ':config filegen timingstats' (CVE-2015-5195).

It was found that the :config command can be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals). For example,
ntpq -c ':config pidfile /tmp/ntp.pid'
ntpq -c ':config driftfile /tmp/ntp.drift' (CVE-2015-5196).

It was discovered that sntp would hang in an infinite loop when a crafted NTP packet was received, related to the conversion of the precision value in the packet to double (CVE-2015-5219).

Alerts:
Oracle ELSA-2016-2583 ntp 2016-11-10
Red Hat RHSA-2016:2583-02 ntp 2016-11-03
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:2094-1 yast2-ntp-client 2016-08-17
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:1912-1 ntp 2016-07-29
Scientific Linux SLSA-2016:0780-1 ntp 2016-06-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2016:1311-1 ntp 2016-05-17
Oracle ELSA-2016-0780 ntp 2016-05-13
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:3280-1 ntp 2016-12-28
Red Hat RHSA-2016:0780-01 ntp 2016-05-10
Scientific Linux SLSA-2016:2583-2 ntp 2016-12-14
Fedora FEDORA-2015-77bfbc1bcd ntp 2015-11-04
Slackware SSA:2015-302-03 ntp 2015-10-29
Debian DSA-3388-1 ntp 2015-11-01
Debian-LTS DLA-335-1 ntp 2015-10-28
Ubuntu USN-2783-1 ntp 2015-10-27
Fedora FEDORA-2015-14212 ntp 2015-10-12
Mageia MGASA-2015-0348 ntp 2015-09-08

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