Fedora 10 : ntp-4.2.4p7-1.fc10 (2009-5273)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 38961

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a denial of service issue if autokey is enabled (default is disabled) and a crash in ntpq.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. 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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=490617

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499694

http://www.nessus.org/u?adf7b02c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 38961

File Name: fedora_2009-5273.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0159, CVE-2009-1252

BID: 34481, 35017

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2009-5273