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HistoryJun 14, 2016 - 12:08 p.m.

Security update for ntp (important)

2016-06-1412:08:32
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ntp was updated to version 4.2.8p8 to fix 17 security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-4956: Broadcast interleave (bsc#982068).
  • CVE-2016-2518: Crafted addpeer with hmode > 7 causes array wraparound
    with MATCH_ASSOC (bsc#977457).
  • CVE-2016-2519: ctl_getitem() return value not always checked
    (bsc#977458).
  • CVE-2016-4954: Processing spoofed server packets (bsc#982066).
  • CVE-2016-4955: Autokey association reset (bsc#982067).
  • CVE-2015-7974: NTP did not verify peer associations of symmetric keys
    when authenticating packets, which might allowed remote attackers to
    conduct impersonation attacks via an arbitrary trusted key, aka a
    "skeleton key (bsc#962960).
  • CVE-2016-4957: CRYPTO_NAK crash (bsc#982064).
  • CVE-2016-2516: Duplicate IPs on unconfig directives will cause an
    assertion botch (bsc#977452).
  • CVE-2016-2517: Remote configuration trustedkey/requestkey values are not
    properly validated (bsc#977455).
  • CVE-2016-4953: Bad authentication demobilizes ephemeral associations
    (bsc#982065).
  • CVE-2016-1547: CRYPTO-NAK DoS (bsc#977459).
  • CVE-2016-1551: Refclock impersonation vulnerability, AKA:
    refclock-peering (bsc#977450).
  • CVE-2016-1550: Improve NTP security against buffer comparison timing
    attacks, authdecrypt-timing, AKA: authdecrypt-timing (bsc#977464).
  • CVE-2016-1548: Interleave-pivot - MITIGATION ONLY (bsc#977461).
  • CVE-2016-1549: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack, AKA:
    ntp-sybil - MITIGATION ONLY (bsc#977451).

This release also contained improved patches for CVE-2015-7704,
CVE-2015-7705, CVE-2015-7974.

These non-security issues were fixed:

  • bsc#979302: Change the process name of the forking DNS worker process to
    avoid the impression that ntpd is started twice.
  • bsc#981422: Don’t ignore SIGCHILD because it breaks wait().
  • bsc#979981: ntp-wait does not accept fractional seconds, so use 1
    instead of 0.2 in ntp-wait.service.
  • Separate the creation of ntp.keys and key #1 in it to avoid problems
    when upgrading installations that have the file, but no key #1, which is
    needed e.g. by "rcntp addserver".
  • bsc#957226: Restrict the parser in the startup script to the first
    occurrance of "keys" and "controlkey" in ntp.conf.