[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: ntp-4.2.4p8-1.fc12
updates at fedoraproject.org
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Fri Dec 11 18:14:28 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-13046
2009-12-11 16:36:45
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Name : ntp
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 4.2.4p8
Release : 1.fc12
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 and
the ntpdate program is in the ntpdate package. The documentation is
in the ntp-doc package.
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Update Information:
This update fixes possible DoS with mode 7 packets. (CVE-2009-3563)
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Dec 9 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.4p8-1
- update to 4.2.4p8 (#545557, CVE-2009-3563)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #531213 - CVE-2009-3563 ntpd: DoS with mode 7 packets (VU#568372)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531213
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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