Oracle alert ELSA-2015-2231 (ntp)
| From: | Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux <el-errata@oss.oracle.com> | |
| To: | el-errata@oss.oracle.com | |
| Subject: | [El-errata] ELSA-2015-2231 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 ntp security, bug fix, and enhancement update | |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:09:33 -0800 | |
| Message-ID: | <5653D4ED.5020200@oracle.com> |
Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-2231 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2231.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: x86_64: ntp-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-22.el7.noarch.rpm ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-22.el7.noarch.rpm ntpdate-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm sntp-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/ntp-4.2.6p5-22.el... Description of changes: [4.2.6p5-22] - check origin timestamp before accepting KoD RATE packet (CVE-2015-7704) - allow only one step larger than panic threshold with -g (CVE-2015-5300) [4.2.6p5-20] - validate lengths of values in extension fields (CVE-2014-9297) - drop packets with spoofed source address ::1 (CVE-2014-9298) - reject packets without MAC when authentication is enabled (CVE-2015-1798) - protect symmetric associations with symmetric key against DoS attack (CVE-2015-1799) - fix generation of MD5 keys with ntp-keygen on big-endian systems (CVE-2015-3405) - add option to set Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) (#1202828) - add nanosecond support to SHM refclock (#1117702) - allow creating all SHM segments with owner-only access (#1122012) - allow different thresholds for forward and backward step (#1193154) - allow symmetric keys up to 32 bytes again (#1191111) - don't step clock for leap second with -x option (#1191122) - don't drop packets with source port below 123 (#1171640) - retry joining multicast groups (#1207014) - increase memlock limit again (#1053569) - warn when monitor can't be disabled due to limited restrict (#1191108) - use larger RSA exponent in ntp-keygen (#1191116) - fix crash in ntpq mreadvar command (#1180721) - move sntp kod database to allow SELinux labeling (#1082934) - fix typos in ntpd man page (#1195211) - improve documentation of restrict command (#1213953) _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata