[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ntp-4.2.6p5-13.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-17395
2014-12-21 05:22:33
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 4.2.6p5
Release     : 13.fc19
URL         : http://www.ntp.org
Summary     : The NTP daemon and utilities
Description :
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize a computer's
time with another reference time source. This package includes ntpd
(a daemon which continuously adjusts system time) and utilities used
to query and configure the ntpd daemon.

Perl scripts ntp-wait and ntptrace are in the ntp-perl package,
ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package.
The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.

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Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9296
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 19 2014 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-13
- don't generate weak control key for resolver (CVE-2014-9293)
- don't generate weak MD5 keys in ntp-keygen (CVE-2014-9294)
- fix buffer overflows via specially-crafted packets (CVE-2014-9295)
- don't mobilize passive association when authentication fails (CVE-2014-9296)
- buildrequire systemd-units
* Thu May  2 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-12
- workaround failing autogen
- move files from /lib
- don't own ntp-units.d directory
- drop old systemd scriptlets
- fix dates in changelog
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1176032 - CVE-2014-9293 ntp: automatic generation of weak default key in config_auth()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176032
  [ 2 ] Bug #1176035 - CVE-2014-9294 ntp: ntp-keygen uses weak random number generator and seed when generating MD5 keys
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176035
  [ 3 ] Bug #1176037 - CVE-2014-9295 ntp: Multiple buffer overflows via specially-crafted packets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176037
  [ 4 ] Bug #1176040 - CVE-2014-9296 ntp: receive() missing return on error
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176040
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update ntp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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