openSUSE Security Update : ntp (openSUSE-2014-474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76958

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The NTP time service could be used for remote denial of service amplification attacks.

This issue can be fixed by the administrator as we described in our security advisory SUSE-SA:2014:001 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00005.
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and on http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-5211.html

This update now also replaces the default ntp.conf template to fix this problem.

Please note that if you have touched or modified ntp.conf yourself, it will not be automatically fixed, you need to merge the changes manually as described.

Solution

Update the affected ntp packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76958

File Name: openSUSE-2014-474.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/1/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-5211

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