[El-errata] ELSA-2017-0252 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 ntp security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Mon Feb 6 16:57:59 PST 2017


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-0252

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0252.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
ntp-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm
ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.noarch.rpm
ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.noarch.rpm
ntpdate-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm
sntp-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/ntp-4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.2.6p5-25.0.1.el7_3.1]
- Bump release to avoid ULN conflict with Oracle modified errata.

[4.2.6p5-25.el7_3.1]
- don't limit rate of packets from sources (CVE-2016-7426)
- don't change interface from received packets (CVE-2016-7429)
- fix calculation of root distance again (CVE-2016-7433)
- require authentication for trap commands (CVE-2016-9310)
- fix crash when reporting peer event to trappers (CVE-2016-9311)





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