[El-errata] ELSA-2017-3071 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 ntp security update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Oct 26 11:40:38 PDT 2017


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-3071

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3071.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
ntp-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.noarch.rpm
ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.i686.rpm
ntpdate-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.i686.rpm

x86_64:
ntp-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.noarch.rpm
ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm
ntpdate-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/ntp-4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.2.6p5-12.0.1.el6_9.1]
- add disable monitor to default ntp.conf [CVE-2013-5211]

[4.2.6p5-12.el6_9.1]
- fix buffer overflow in datum refclock driver (CVE-2017-6462)
- fix crash with invalid unpeer command (CVE-2017-6463)
- fix potential crash with invalid server command (CVE-2017-6464)

[4.2.6p5-12]
- 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)

[4.2.6p5-11]
- don't allow spoofed packets to demobilize associations (CVE-2015-7979,
   CVE-2016-1547)
- don't allow spoofed packet to enable symmetric interleaved mode
   (CVE-2016-1548)
- check mode of new source in config command (CVE-2016-2518)
- make MAC check resilient against timing attack (CVE-2016-1550)





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