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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1549: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2018-1009)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-1549: Security patch for ntp (ALAS-2018-1009)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/06/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/11/2018
Modified
05/11/2018

Description

A malicious authenticated peer can create arbitrarily-many ephemeral associations in order to win the clock selection algorithm in ntpd in NTP 4.2.8p4 and earlier and NTPsec 3e160db8dc248a0bcb053b56a80167dc742d2b74 and a5fb34b9cc89b92a8fef2f459004865c93bb7f92 and modify a victim's clock.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-ntp

References

  • ALAS-2018-1009
  • 88200
  • 1035705
  • FreeBSD-SA-16:16
  • GLSA-201607-15
  • CVE-2016-1549

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