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Slackware: 2014-356-01 High-Severity Ntp Security Fix for 13.x

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent ntp updates for Slackware address numerous critical security vulnerabilities, improving overall safety.
New ntp packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes several high-severity vulnerabilities discovered by Neel Mehta and Stephen Roettger of the Google Security Team. For more information, see: https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/852879 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9293 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9294 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9295 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9296 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update slackware ntp package high-severity

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 13.0 package: 18d7f09e90cf2434f59d7e9f11478fba ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: edd178e3d2636433dd18f52331af17a5 ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 4b6da6fa564b1fe00920d402ff97bd43 ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 292ae7dbd3ea593c5e28cbba7c2b71fa ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 294b8197d360f9a3cf8186619b60b73c ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 7cd5b63f8371b1cc369bc56e4b4efd5a ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 32eab67538c33e4669bda9200799a497 ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 33ecf4845fa8533a12a98879815bde08 ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: f2b45a45c846a909ae201176ce359939 ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 12d7ab6e2541af4d1282621d3773e7f7 ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 5b2150cee9840d8bb547098cccde879a n/ntp-4.2.8-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 9ce09c5d6a60d3e2117988e4551e4af1 n/ntp-4.2.8-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue update slackware ntp package high-severity

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ntp-4.2.8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart the NTP daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd restart

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