Fedora 23: ntp Security Update 2015-14213
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-2015-5146, CVE-2015-5194, CVE-2015-5219, CVE-2015-5195, CVE-2015-5196
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1255118 - CVE-2015-5219 ntp: infinite loop in sntp processing crafted packet https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255118 [ 2 ] Bug #1254547 - CVE-2015-5196 ntp: config command can be used to set the pidfile and drift file paths https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254547 [ 3 ] Bug #1238136 - CVE-2015-5146 ntp: ntpd control message crash on crafted NUL-byte in configuration directive (VU#668167) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1238136 [ 4 ] Bug #1254542 - CVE-2015-5194 ntp: crash with crafted logconfig configuration command https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254542 [ 5 ] Bug #1254544 - CVE-2015-5195 ntp: ntpd crash when processing config commands with statistics type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1254544
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 .