system environment/daemons

ntp - The NTP daemon and utilities

Website: http://www.ntp.org
License: (MIT and BSD and BSD with advertising) and GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux
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.

Packages

ntp-4.2.6p5-15.el6_10.x86_64 [598 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2018-12-10):
- fix buffer overflow in parsing of address in ntpq and ntpdc (CVE-2018-12327)
ntp-4.2.6p5-12.el6_9.1.x86_64 [598 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2017-09-22):
- fix buffer overflow in datum refclock driver (CVE-2017-6462)
- fix crash with invalid unpeer command (CVE-2017-6463)
- fix potential crash with invalid server command (CVE-2017-6464)
ntp-4.2.6p5-10.el6_8.2.x86_64 [598 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2017-01-11):
- don't limit rate of packets from sources (CVE-2016-7426)
- don't change interface from received packets (CVE-2016-7429)
- fix calculation of root distance again (CVE-2016-7433)
- require authentication for trap commands (CVE-2016-9310)
- fix crash when reporting peer event to trappers (CVE-2016-9311)
ntp-4.2.6p5-10.el6.1.x86_64 [597 KiB] Changelog by Miroslav Lichvar (2016-05-03):
- don't allow spoofed packets to demobilize associations (CVE-2015-7979,
  CVE-2016-1547)
- don't allow spoofed packet to enable symmetric interleaved mode
  (CVE-2016-1548)
- check mode of new source in config command (CVE-2016-2518)
- make MAC check resilient against timing attack (CVE-2016-1550)

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