SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ntp (SUSE-SU-2016:1584-1)

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 91666

Synopsis

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

Description

ntp was updated to version 4.2.8p8 to fix five security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2016-4953: Bad authentication demobilizes ephemeral associations (bsc#982065).

 - CVE-2016-4954: Processing spoofed server packets (bsc#982066).

 - CVE-2016-4955: Autokey association reset (bsc#982067).

 - CVE-2016-4956: Broadcast interleave (bsc#982068).

 - CVE-2016-4957: CRYPTO_NAK crash (bsc#982064).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-ntp-12612=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ntp-12612=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=979302

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981422

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982056

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982064

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982065

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982066

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982067

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982068

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4953/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4954/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4955/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4956/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4957/

http://www.nessus.org/u?96118018

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 91666

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1584-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2016/06/17

Updated: 2018/11/29

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Medium

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/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-doc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2016/06/15

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4953, CVE-2016-4954, CVE-2016-4955, CVE-2016-4956, CVE-2016-4957