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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NTP vulnerabilities (USN-2449-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80218

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2449-1 advisory.

 Neel Mehta discovered that NTP generated weak authentication keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the authentication key and send requests if permitted by IP restrictions.
 (CVE-2014-9293)

 Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP generated weak MD5 keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to brute force the MD5 key and spoof a client or server. (CVE-2014-9294)

 Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP contained buffer overflows in the crypto_recv(), ctl_putdata() and configure() functions. In non-default configurations, a remote attacker could use these issues to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. In addition, attackers would be isolated by the NTP AppArmor profile. (CVE-2014-9295)

 Stephen Roettger discovered that NTP incorrectly continued processing when handling certain errors.
 (CVE-2014-9296)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected ntp and / or ntpdate packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2449-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80218

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2449-1.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/23/2014

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9295

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9293

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntpdate, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntp

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9296

BID: 71757, 71758, 71761, 71762

USN: 2449-1