-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-20d54b2782 2017-04-01 16:46:19.664859 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
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