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Slackware 14.1 SSA:2021-098-01 Severe NTP Service Interruption

slackware
Calendar Grey June 4, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated ntp packages have been released for Slackware to resolve severe security vulnerabilities and improve overall system performance.
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-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This release patches one high and four low severity security issues: CVE-2016-4957: Crypto-NAK crash CVE-2016-4953: Bad authentication demobilizes ephemeral associations CVE-2016-4954: Processing spoofed server packets CVE-2016-4955: Autokey association reset CVE-2016-4956: Broadcast interleave For more information, see: http://www.ntp.org/support/securitynotice/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4957 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4953 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4954 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4955 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4956 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue software update Slackware system stability NTP service

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: 358ead6ad06921c4c44080d18e7ee18d ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: d4e7ffeee3aa9ddf2b66d60bc1c441b7 ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: 9795894dfa014305a38be8fb5b800d0d ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: 4e74c4a21286e3c2b22b998b1c886f62 ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package: a3822c5035ee4ab8729fb5f10b279aff ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package: 80a6353b42a35cf570683f3cf776b264 ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package: 6f077cb40ad50e26c92185432fd54a77 ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: a1cbdf25dfcb470edf07975cceb620c2 ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 69d7124410f59ee235e781d2753ee4bb ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 9ae3c7b444d3fd29b50cefeeafea57bf ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 5a5a3926459e7dbe8bacf5b8d7b14c64 n/ntp-4.2.8p8-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: b2569c6a8111660566160f98bce2a7dc n/ntp-4.2.8p8-x86_64-1.txz

Severity
critical
Lowest
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Medium
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Critical

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory high severity security issue software update Slackware system stability NTP service

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg ntp-4.2.8p8-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart the NTP daemon: # sh /etc/rc.d/rc.ntpd restart

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