ELSA-2015-2231 - ntp security, bug fix, and enhancement update
| Type: | SECURITY |
| Severity: | MODERATE |
| Release Date: | 2015-11-23 |
Description
[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)
Related CVEs
Updated Packages
| Release/Architecture | Filename | MD5sum | Superseded By Advisory |
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| Oracle Linux 7 (x86_64) | ntp-4.2.6p5-22.el7.src.rpm | d3703bae7737d054f20300ca75657ecd | ELSA-2020-2663 |
| ntp-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm | d7c7873fa5c38f6392f8316998e5636f | ELSA-2020-2663 |
| ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-22.el7.noarch.rpm | e235e1fdd3505a8f46da003ff04e1cc2 | ELSA-2020-2663 |
| ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-22.el7.noarch.rpm | 26956de34b503e82a9bf34bfc7941923 | ELSA-2020-2663 |
| ntpdate-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm | d66b73c47ad8aa26f170b8c55939090f | ELSA-2020-2663 |
| sntp-4.2.6p5-22.el7.x86_64.rpm | 22119c07b4ece669a4e6913f52f4f043 | ELSA-2020-2663 |
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