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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5761
2015-04-08 17:18:26
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 4.2.6p5
Release     : 30.fc22
URL         : http://www.ntp.org
Summary     : The NTP daemon and utilities
Description :
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,
ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package.
The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-1799, CVE-2015-1798, #1210324
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1199435 - CVE-2015-1799 ntp: authentication doesn't protect symmetric associations against DoS attacks
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199435
  [ 2 ] Bug #1199430 - CVE-2015-1798 ntp: ntpd accepts unauthenticated packets with symmetric key crypto
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199430
  [ 3 ] Bug #1210324 - ntp: ntp-keygen may generate non-random symmetric keys on big-endian systems
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210324
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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 .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 22: ntp Security Update 2015-5761

April 22, 2015
Security fix for CVE-2015-1799, CVE-2015-1798, #1210324

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,

ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package.

The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2015-1799, CVE-2015-1798, #1210324

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1199435 - CVE-2015-1799 ntp: authentication doesn't protect symmetric associations against DoS attacks https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199435 [ 2 ] Bug #1199430 - CVE-2015-1798 ntp: ntpd accepts unauthenticated packets with symmetric key crypto https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199430 [ 3 ] Bug #1210324 - ntp: ntp-keygen may generate non-random symmetric keys on big-endian systems https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1210324

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 .

Severity
Name : ntp
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 4.2.6p5
Release : 30.fc22
URL : http://www.ntp.org
Summary : The NTP daemon and utilities

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