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HistoryJul 25, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

ntp - security update

2016-07-2500:00:00
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Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Network Time Protocol
daemon and utility programs:

  • CVE-2015-7974
    Matt Street discovered that insufficient key validation allows
    impersonation attacks between authenticated peers.
  • CVE-2015-7977
    CVE-2015-7978
    Stephen Gray discovered that a NULL pointer dereference and a
    buffer overflow in the handling of ntpdc reslist commands may
    result in denial of service.
  • CVE-2015-7979
    Aanchal Malhotra discovered that if NTP is configured for broadcast
    mode, an attacker can send malformed authentication packets which
    break associations with the server for other broadcast clients.
  • CVE-2015-8138
    Matthew van Gundy and Jonathan Gardner discovered that missing
    validation of origin timestamps in ntpd clients may result in denial
    of service.
  • CVE-2015-8158
    Jonathan Gardner discovered that missing input sanitising in ntpq
    may result in denial of service.
  • CVE-2016-1547
    Stephen Gray and Matthew van Gundy discovered that incorrect handling
    of crypto NAK packets may result in denial of service.
  • CVE-2016-1548
    Jonathan Gardner and Miroslav Lichvar discovered that ntpd clients
    could be forced to change from basic client/server mode to interleaved
    symmetric mode, preventing time synchronisation.
  • CVE-2016-1550
    Matthew van Gundy, Stephen Gray and Loganaden Velvindron discovered
    that timing leaks in the packet authentication code could result
    in recovery of a message digest.
  • CVE-2016-2516
    Yihan Lian discovered that duplicate IPs on unconfig directives will
    trigger an assert.
  • CVE-2016-2518
    Yihan Lian discovered that an OOB memory access could potentially
    crash ntpd.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7+deb8u2.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ntp packages.