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Slackware 14.1 SSA:2015-302-03 Moderate NTP Security Fix

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Calendar Grey October 29, 2015
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated NTP software for Slackware 13.x released to mitigate various security concerns with low to medium threat levels.
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-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, this release fixes several low and medium severity vulnerabilities. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9750 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5196 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7691 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7692 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7701 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7702 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7704 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7705 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7848 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7849 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7850 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7851 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7852 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7853

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory medium severity security fix slackware low severity ntp

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: 21dd14178fea17a88c9326c8672ecefd ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 8647479b2007b92ff8598184f2275263 ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: e0f122e8e271dc84db06202c03cc0288 ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: db0aff04b72b3d8c96ca8c8e1ed36c05 ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: 5914e43e886e5ff88fefd30083493e30 ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 4335c3bf2ae24afc5ad734e8d80b3e94 ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 39b05698797b638b67130e0b170e0a4b ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: dcf4a56ba1d013ee1c9d0e624e158709 ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 1fd3a7beaf23303e2c211af377662614 ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 438c3185aa8ec20d1c2b5e51786e4d41 ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 81bfb2fed450cb26a51b5e1cee0d33ed n/ntp-4.2.8p4-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 8bae4ad633af40d4d54b7686e4b225f9 n/ntp-4.2.8p4-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
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Medium
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Critical

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Topics Covered

security advisory medium severity security fix slackware low severity ntp

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ntp-4.2.8p4-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart the NTP daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd restart

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