[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: ntp-4.2.8p12-1.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-7051d682fa
2018-09-26 20:15:42.048253
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Name : ntp
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 4.2.8p12
Release : 1.fc27
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-2018-12327 and fixed fix for CVE-2018-7170.
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ChangeLog:
* Wed Aug 15 2018 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 4.2.8p12-1
- update to 4.2.8p12 (CVE-2018-12327 CVE-2018-7170)
* Thu Mar 1 2018 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 4.2.8p11-1
- update to 4.2.8p11 (CVE-2016-1549, CVE-2018-7170, CVE-2018-7182,
CVE-2018-7183, CVE-2018-7184, CVE-2018-7185)
- use noepeer restriction in default config
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1593580 - CVE-2018-12327 ntp: Stack-based buffer overflow in ntpq and ntpdc
allows denial of service or code execution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1593580
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-7051d682fa' 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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