Fedora 24 NTP Security Update 2016-ed8c6c0426 Critical Threat
fedora
May 7, 2016
Security fix for CVE-2016-1548, CVE-2016-2516, CVE-2016-2518, CVE-2016-1550
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-2016-1548, CVE-2016-2516, CVE-2016-2518, CVE-2016-1550
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1331462 - CVE-2016-1548 ntp: ntpd switching to interleaved mode with spoofed packets
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331462
[ 2 ] Bug #1331466 - CVE-2016-2516 ntp: assertion failure in ntpd on duplicate IPs on unconfig directives
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331466
[ 3 ] Bug #1331468 - CVE-2016-2518 ntp: out-of-bounds references on crafted packet
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331468
[ 4 ] Bug #1331464 - CVE-2016-1550 ntp: libntp message digest disclosure
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331464
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 24
Version: 4.2.6p5
Release: 40.fc24
URL: http://www.ntp.org
Summary: The NTP daemon and utilities
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