[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:1173-1: important: Security update for ntp

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for ntp

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1173-1

Rating: important

References: #924202 #928321 #935409

Cross-References: CVE-2015-1799 CVE-2015-3405

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

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An update that solves two vulnerabilities and has one

errata is now available.

 

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)

 

Security Issues:

 

* CVE-2015-1799

 

* CVE-2015-3405

 

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

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".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware (i586 x86_64):

 

ntp-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

ntp-doc-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

 

ntp-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

ntp-doc-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3 (i586 x86_64):

 

ntp-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

ntp-doc-4.2.4p8-1.29.36.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1799.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3405.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/924202

https://bugzilla.suse.com/928321

https://bugzilla.suse.com/935409

https://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=01d100dcc703803037ff705ec9182df6

 

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