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Slackware: 2023-210-01 Critical Update on Ntp Vulnerabilities and Fixes

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2016
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] ntp (SSA:2016-120-01) New ntp pac
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-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release patches several low and medium severity security issues: CVE-2016-1551: Refclock impersonation vulnerability, AKA: refclock-peering CVE-2016-1549: Sybil vulnerability: ephemeral association attack, AKA: ntp-sybil - MITIGATION ONLY CVE-2016-2516: Duplicate IPs on unconfig directives will cause an assertion botch CVE-2016-2517: Remote configuration trustedkey/requestkey values are not properly validated CVE-2016-2518: Crafted addpeer with hmode 7 causes array wraparound with MATCH_ASSOC CVE-2016-2519: ctl_getitem() return value not always checked CVE-2016-1547: Validate crypto-NAKs, AKA: nak-dos CVE-2016-1548: Interleave-pivot - MITIGATION ONLY CVE-2015-7704: KoD fix: peer associations were broken by the fix for NtpBug2901, AKA: Symmetric active/passive mode is broken CVE-2015-8138: Zero Origin Timestamp Bypass,

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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: 785dc2ef5f80edb28dc781e261c3fe3f ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: 899421096b7b63e6cb269f8b01dfd875 ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: dfd34cbd31be3572a2bcae7f59cdfd91 ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 63c4b31736040e7950361cd0d7081c8b ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: e760ae0c6cc3fa933e4d65d6995b0c84 ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: aa448523b27bb4fcccc2f46cf4d72bc5 ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 3bc7e54a4164a4f91be996b5cf2e643e ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 0f6ea4dae476709f26f5d0e33378576c ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: dbe827ee7ece6ce5ca083cdd5960162c ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 89f3edf183a6a9847d69b8349f98c901 ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 4018b86edd15e40e8c5e9f50d907dcff n/ntp-4.2.8p7-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7dd6b64ba8c9fdaebb7becc1f5c3963d n/ntp-4.2.8p7-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ntp-4.2.8p7-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart the NTP daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd restart