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openSUSE Security Update : ntp (openSUSE-2016-727)

high Nessus Plugin ID 91630

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

ntp was updated to fix five security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-4953: Bad authentication demobilizes ephemeral associations (bsc#982065).

 - CVE-2016-4954: Processing spoofed server packets (bsc#982066).

 - CVE-2016-4955: Autokey association reset (bsc#982067).

 - CVE-2016-4956: Broadcast interleave (bsc#982068).

 - CVE-2016-4957: CRYPTO_NAK crash (bsc#982064).

These non-security issues were fixed :

 - bsc#979302: Change the process name of the forking DNS worker process to avoid the impression that ntpd is started twice.

 - bsc#979981: ntp-wait does not accept fractional seconds, so use 1 instead of 0.2 in ntp-wait.service.

 - bsc#981422: Don't ignore SIGCHILD because it breaks wait().

 - Separate the creation of ntp.keys and key #1 in it to avoid problems when upgrading installations that have the file, but no key #1, which is needed e.g. by 'rcntp addserver'.

Solution

Update the affected ntp packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979302

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=979981

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=981422

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982056

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982064

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982065

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982066

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982067

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982068

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 91630

File Name: openSUSE-2016-727.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2016

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debugsource

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4953, CVE-2016-4954, CVE-2016-4955, CVE-2016-4956, CVE-2016-4957