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HistoryApr 28, 2016 - 7:13 p.m.

Security update for ntp (important)

2016-04-2819:13:09
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ntp was updated to version 4.2.8p6 to fix 12 security issues.

Also yast2-ntp-client was updated to match some sntp syntax changes.
(bsc#937837)

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2015-8158: Fixed potential infinite loop in ntpq (bsc#962966).
  • CVE-2015-8138: Zero Origin Timestamp Bypass (bsc#963002).
  • CVE-2015-7979: Off-path Denial of Service (DoS) attack on authenticated
    broadcast mode (bsc#962784).
  • CVE-2015-7978: Stack exhaustion in recursive traversal of restriction
    list (bsc#963000).
  • CVE-2015-7977: reslist NULL pointer dereference (bsc#962970).
  • CVE-2015-7976: ntpq saveconfig command allows dangerous characters in
    filenames (bsc#962802).
  • CVE-2015-7975: nextvar() missing length check (bsc#962988).
  • CVE-2015-7974: Skeleton Key: Missing key check allows impersonation
    between authenticated peers (bsc#962960).
  • CVE-2015-7973: Replay attack on authenticated broadcast mode
    (bsc#962995).
  • CVE-2015-8140: ntpq vulnerable to replay attacks (bsc#962994).
  • CVE-2015-8139: Origin Leak: ntpq and ntpdc, disclose origin (bsc#962997).
  • CVE-2015-5300: MITM attacker could have forced ntpd to make a step
    larger than the panic threshold (bsc#951629).

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • fate#320758 bsc#975981: Enable compile-time support for MS-SNTP
    (–enable-ntp-signd). This replaces the w32 patches in 4.2.4 that added
    the authreg directive.
  • bsc#962318: Call /usr/sbin/sntp with full path to synchronize in
    start-ntpd. When run as cron job, /usr/sbin/ is not in the path, which
    caused the synchronization to fail.
  • bsc#782060: Speedup ntpq.
  • bsc#916617: Add /var/db/ntp-kod.
  • bsc#956773: Add ntp-ENOBUFS.patch to limit a warning that might happen
    quite a lot on loaded systems.
  • bsc#951559,bsc#975496: Fix the TZ offset output of sntp during DST.
  • Add ntp-fork.patch and build with threads disabled to allow name
    resolution even when running chrooted.