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SUSE: 2018:3342-1 Moderate Vulnerabilities in NTP Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a Security Update for NTP that addresses critical vulnerabilities and includes comprehensive installation guidelines along with detailed errata information.
An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Summary

NTP was updated to 4.2.8p12 (bsc#1111853): - CVE-2018-12327: Fixed stack buffer overflow in the openhost() command-line call of NTPQ/NTPDC. (bsc#1098531) - CVE-2018-7170: Add further tweaks to improve the fix for the ephemeral association time spoofing additional protection (bsc#1083424) Please also see http://www.nwtime.org/network-time-foundation-publishes-ntp-4-2-8p12/ for more information. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7: zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2018-2404=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2018-2404=1

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow SUSE NTP errata

References

#1083424 #1098531 #1111853

Cross- CVE-2018-12327 CVE-2018-7170

Affected Products:

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12327.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7170.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1083424

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1098531

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1111853

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3342-1
Rating: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow SUSE NTP errata

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