[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: ntp-4.2.6p5-40.fc24

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-ed8c6c0426
2016-05-07 11:36:53.839204
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 24
Version     : 4.2.6p5
Release     : 40.fc24
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-2016-1548, CVE-2016-2516, CVE-2016-2518, CVE-2016-1550
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1331462 - CVE-2016-1548 ntp: ntpd switching to interleaved mode with spoofed packets
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331462
  [ 2 ] Bug #1331466 - CVE-2016-2516 ntp: assertion failure in ntpd on duplicate IPs on unconfig directives
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331466
  [ 3 ] Bug #1331468 - CVE-2016-2518 ntp: out-of-bounds references on crafted packet
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331468
  [ 4 ] Bug #1331464 - CVE-2016-1550 ntp: libntp message digest disclosure
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331464
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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 https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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