First Time Ever Apple Automatically Pushes Security Patch for Mac OS

First time ever in the History, Apple Inc. has pushed out an automatic security update for Macintosh OS X computers to address a critical security issue that, according to the company, was too risky to wait for users to patch after seeking their prior approval. Despite having the ability for year...

Apple Patches NTP Vulnerabilities in First Automated Patch

Apple last night for the first time pushed an automated patch to Mac OS X users, taking care of critical Network Time Protocol NTP vulnerabilities. The fix was delivered automatically and did not require Mac users to restart their machines. The latest security issue in NTP, which is used by...

SOL15928 - Network Time Protocol vulnerability CVE-2009-1252

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Apple Releases Security Updates for OS X

Apple has released security updates for OS X Mountain Lion, Mavericks, and Yosemite to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Network Time Protocol daemon. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of a vulnerable system. US-CERT encourages users and...

FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in NTP suite Category: contrib Module: ntp Announced: 2014-12-23 Affects: All...

Debian DSA-3108-1 : ntp - security update

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the ntp package, an implementation of the Network Time Protocol. - CVE-2014-9293 ntpd generated a weak key for its internal use, with full administrative privileges. Attackers could use this key to reconfigure ntpd or to exploit other vulnerabilities. -...

USN-2449-1 ntp vulnerabilities

Neel Mehta discovered that NTP generated weak authentication keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the authentication key and send requests if permitted by IP restrictions. CVE-2014-9293 Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP generated weak MD5 keys. A remote attacker...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ntp-4.2.6p5-19.fc20

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...

CentOS 6 / 7 : ntp (CESA-2014:2024)

Updated ntp packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

RHEL 6 / 7 : ntp (RHSA-2014:2024)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:2024 advisory. The Network Time Protocol NTP is used to synchronize a computer's time with a referenced time source. Multiple buffer overflow flaws wer...

[SECURITY] [DLA 116-1] ntp security update

Package : ntp Version : 4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1+deb6u1 CVE ID : CVE-2014-9293 CVE-2014-9294 CVE-2014-9295 CVE-2014-9296 Debian Bug : 773576 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the ntp package, an implementation of the Network Time Protocol. CVE-2014-9293 ntpd generated a weak key for its internal...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3108-1] ntp security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3108-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer December 20, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

ntp security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:2025 Updated ntp packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whi...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9296

The receive function in ntpproto.c in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8 continues to execute after detecting a certain authentication error, which might allow remote attackers to trigger an unintended association change via crafted packets...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9295

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.8 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet, related to 1 the cryptorecv function when the Autokey Authentication feature is used, 2 the ctlputdata function, and 3 the configure function...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9294

util/ntp-keygen.c in ntp-keygen in NTP before 4.2.7p230 uses a weak RNG seed, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a brute-force attack...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9293

The configauth function in ntpd in NTP before 4.2.7p11, when an auth key is not configured, improperly generates a key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms via a brute-force attack...

ntp, ntpdate, sntp security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:2024 Updated ntp packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scor...

ntp: receive() missing return on error

A missing return statement in the receive function could potentially allow a remote attacker to bypass NTP's authentication mechanism...

ntp: automatic generation of weak default key in config_auth()

It was found that ntpd automatically generated weak keys for its internal use if no ntpdc request authentication key was specified in the ntp.conf configuration file. A remote attacker able to match the configured IP restrictions could guess the generated key, and possibly use it to send ntpdc...