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Gentoo: GLSA-201401-08 Normal: NTP Traffic Amplification DoS

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NTP vulnerabilities can be manipulated to amplify traffic during Denial of Service assaults; users of Gentoo are advised to upgrade immediately.
NTP can be abused to amplify Denial of Service attack traffic.

Summary

ntpd is susceptible to a reflected Denial of Service attack. Please review the CVE identifiers and references below for details.

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Topics Covered

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Resolution

All NTP users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10"
Note that the updated package contains a modified default configuration only. You may need to modify your configuration further.

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-5211 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-5211 [ 2 ] VU#348126 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/348126

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201401-08
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: Normal
Title: NTP: Traffic amplification
Date: January 16, 2014
Bugs: #496776
ID: 201401-08

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Topics Covered

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Synopsis

NTP can be abused to amplify Denial of Service attack traffic.

Background

NTP is a protocol designed to synchronize the clocks of computers over a network. The net-misc/ntp package contains the official reference implementation by the NTP Project.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/ntp < 4.2.6_p5-r10 >= 4.2.6_p5-r10

Impact

===== An unauthenticated remote attacker may conduct a distributed reflective Denial of Service attack on another user via a vulnerable NTP server.

Workaround

We modified the default ntp configuration in =net-misc/ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10 and added "noquery" to the default restriction which disallows anyone to query the ntpd status, including "monlist". If you use a non-default configuration, and provide a ntp service to untrusted networks, we highly recommend you to revise your configuration to disable mode 6 and 7 queries for any untrusted (public) network.
You can always enable these queries for specific trusted networks. For more details please see the "Access Control Support" chapter in the ntp.conf(5) man page.