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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-14213
2015-09-20 15:21:57.550217
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 4.2.6p5
Release     : 33.fc23
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-2015-5146, CVE-2015-5194, CVE-2015-5219, CVE-2015-5195,
CVE-2015-5196
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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
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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 .

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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 23: ntp Security Update 2015-14213

September 20, 2015
Security fix for CVE-2015-5146, CVE-2015-5194, CVE-2015-5219, CVE-2015-5195, CVE-2015-5196

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 .

Severity
Name : ntp
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.2.6p5
Release : 33.fc23
URL : http://www.ntp.org
Summary : The NTP daemon and utilities

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