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SUSE: 2014:1686-1 Critical Risk: NTP Remote Code Execution Alert

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Calendar Grey December 22, 2014
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SUSE Security Bulletin: Resolution for urgent ntp vulnerability (CVE-2014-9295) released. Implement updates promptly to ensure system protection.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This ntp update fixes the following critical security issue: * A potential remote code execution problem was found inside ntpd. The functions crypto_recv() (when using autokey authentication) and ctl_putdata() where updated to avoid buffer overflows that could have been exploited. (CVE-2014-9295 / VU#852879) Security Issues: * CVE-2014-9295 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware: zypper in -t patch slessp3-ntp-10117 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3: zypper in -t patch slessp3-ntp-10117 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS: zypper in -t patch slessp2-ntp-10118

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution patch SUSE NTP SUSE update

References

#910764

Cross- CVE-2014-9295

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9295.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910764

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1686-1
Rating: critical

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical remote code execution patch SUSE NTP SUSE update

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