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

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 91666

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VPR Score: 3.6

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'.

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

Medium Nessus Plugin ID 91666

New! Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR)

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CVSS v2.0

CVSS v3.0

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