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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-20d54b2782
2017-04-01 16:46:19.664859
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Name : ntp
Product : Fedora 26
Version : 4.2.8p10
Release : 1.fc26
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 are in the ntp-perl package, ntpdate is in the ntpdate
package and sntp is in the sntp package. The documentation in HTML
format is in the ntp-doc package.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2017-6464 CVE-2017-6462 CVE-2017-6463 CVE-2017-6458
CVE-2017-6451 CVE-2017-6460 CVE-2016-9042. ---- This update improves the
default configuration file to use the pool directive. It also replaces the
ntpstat program with a shell script that uses the ntpq program instead of
implementing the mode 6 protocol.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1435163 - CVE-2017-6464 CVE-2017-6462 CVE-2017-6463 CVE-2017-6458
CVE-2017-6451 ntp: various flaws [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1435163
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade ntp' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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