SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ntp (SUSE-SU-2017:1047-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99467

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Synopsis

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

Description

This ntp update to version 4.2.8p10 fixes serveral issues. This updated enables leap smearing. See /usr/share/doc/packages/ntp/README.leapsmear for details. Security issues fixed (bsc#1030050) :

- CVE-2017-6464: Denial of Service via Malformed Config

- CVE-2017-6462: Buffer Overflow in DPTS Clock

- CVE-2017-6463: Authenticated DoS via Malicious Config Option

- CVE-2017-6458: Potential Overflows in ctl_put() functions

- CVE-2017-6451: Improper use of snprintf() in mx4200_send()

- CVE-2017-6460: Buffer Overflow in ntpq when fetching reslist

- CVE-2016-9042: 0rigin (zero origin) DoS.

- ntpq_stripquotes() returns incorrect Value

- ereallocarray()/eallocarray() underused

- Copious amounts of Unused Code

- Off-by-one in Oncore GPS Receiver

- Makefile does not enforce Security Flags Bugfixes :

- Remove spurious log messages (bsc#1014172).

- clang scan-build findings

- Support for openssl-1.1.0 without compatibility modes

- Bugfix 3072 breaks multicastclient

- forking async worker: interrupted pipe I/O

- (...) time_pps_create: Exec format error

- Incorrect Logic for Peer Event Limiting

- Change the process name of forked DNS worker

- Trap Configuration Fail

- Nothing happens if minsane

- allow -4/-6 on restrict line with mask

- out-of-bound pointers in ctl_putsys and decode_bitflags

- Move ntp-kod to /var/lib/ntp, because /var/db is not a standard directory and causes problems for transactional updates.

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 for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-612=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-612=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99467

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1047-1.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/19/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntp-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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: 4/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-9042, CVE-2017-6451, CVE-2017-6458, CVE-2017-6460, CVE-2017-6462, CVE-2017-6463, CVE-2017-6464

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