Fedora 23 : ntp (2016-89e0874533)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 92265

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Security fix for CVE-2015-8139, CVE-2016-4954, CVE-2016-4955, CVE-2016-4956

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ntp package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-89e0874533

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 92265

File Name: fedora_2016-89e0874533.nasl

Version: 2.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/2/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8139, CVE-2016-4954, CVE-2016-4955, CVE-2016-4956