Fedora 12 NTP Security Update - DoS Issue Resolved (CVE-2009-3563)
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December 11, 2009
This update fixes possible DoS with mode 7 packets
Summary
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 package and
the ntpdate program is in the ntpdate package. The documentation is
in the ntp-doc package.
Update Information:
This update fixes possible DoS with mode 7 packets. (CVE-2009-3563)
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Wed Dec 9 2009 Miroslav Lichvar
References
[ 1 ] Bug #531213 - CVE-2009-3563 ntpd: DoS with mode 7 packets (VU#568372)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531213
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ntp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: ntp
Product: Fedora 12
Version: 4.2.4p8
Release: 1.fc12
URL: http://www.ntp.org
Summary: The NTP daemon and utilities
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