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openSUSE Security Update : ntp (openSUSE-2015-330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83105

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

NTP was updated to fix two security vulnerabilities :

 - ntpd could accept unauthenticated packets with symmetric key crypto. (CVE-2015-1798)

 - ntpd authentication did not protect symmetric associations against DoS attacks (CVE-2015-1799)

Solution

Update the affected ntp packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924202

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83105

File Name: openSUSE-2015-330.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ntp-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1798, CVE-2015-1799