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Red Hat: CVE-2015-7974: Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2583)

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Red Hat: CVE-2015-7974: Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update (RHSA-2016:2583)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
01/26/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/04/2016
Modified
06/22/2020

Description

NTP 4.x before 4.2.8p6 and 4.3.x before 4.3.90 do not verify peer associations of symmetric keys when authenticating packets, which might allow remote attackers to conduct impersonation attacks via an arbitrary trusted key, aka a "skeleton key."

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-ntp
  • redhat-upgrade-ntp-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-ntp-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-ntp-perl
  • redhat-upgrade-ntpdate
  • redhat-upgrade-sntp

References

  • RHSA-2016:2583
  • DLA-559-1
  • DSA-3629
  • 81960
  • 1034782
  • FreeBSD-SA-16:09
  • GLSA-201607-15
  • CVE-2015-7974
  • USN-3096-1
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