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SUSE: 2018:3352-1 Moderate: NTP Stack Overflow And Time Spoofing

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has released a security update for ntp, addressing vulnerabilities related to stack overflow and potential time manipulation. Click here to find out more.
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 Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch slessp4-ntp-13832=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4: zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ntp-13832=1 Package List:

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SUSE stack overflow ntp time spoofing

References

#1083424 #1098531 #1111853

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

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4

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

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3352-1
Rating: moderate

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate SUSE stack overflow ntp time spoofing

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