gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201509-01.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201509-01">
  <title>NTP: Multiple vulnerablities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NTP, the worst of which
    could lead to arbitrary code execution.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ntp</product>
  <announced>2015-09-24</announced>
  <revised count="1">2015-09-24</revised>
  <bug>545836</bug>
  <bug>553682</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/ntp" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.2.8_p3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.2.8_p3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>NTP contains software for the Network Time Protocol.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NTP. Please review the
      CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
      privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All NTP users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/ntp-4.2.8_p3"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1798">CVE-2015-1798</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1799">CVE-2015-1799</uri>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-5146">CVE-2015-5146</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-08-05T06:31:39Z">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-09-24T16:30:37Z">mrueg</metadata>
</glsa>