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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : ntp (SUSE-SU-2015:1173-1)
high Nessus Plugin ID 84544
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
ntp was updated to fix two security issues :CVE-2015-1799: ntpd authentication did not protect symmetric associations against DoS attacks (bsc#924202)
CVE-2015-3405: ntp-keygen may generate non-random symmetric keys on big-endian systems (bsc#928321)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
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=10804
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :
zypper in -t patch slessp3-ntp=10804
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 :
zypper in -t patch sledsp3-ntp=10804
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924202
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928321
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935409
http://www.nessus.org/u?e9a55d07
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1799/
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 84544
File Name: suse_SU-2015-1173-1.nasl
Version: 2.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/6/2015
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 3.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp-doc
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/8/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-1799, CVE-2015-3405