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USN-3707-1: NTP vulnerabilities

9 July 2018

Several security issues were fixed in NTP.

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Releases

Packages

  • ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs

Details

Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain malformed mode 6
packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ntpd to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu
17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-7182)

Michael Macnair discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-7183)

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain
zero-origin timestamps. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu
18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-7184)

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain
zero-origin timestamps. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-7185)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 17.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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