Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ntp
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:309.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:309
Insight
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in ntp:
Requesting peer information from a malicious remote time server may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2009-0159).
A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the ntpd daemon's NTPv4 authentication code. If ntpd was configured to use public key cryptography for NTP packet authentication, a remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted request packet that could crash ntpd (CVE-2009-1252).
Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for Corporate products.
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this.
Affected: 2008.0
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0159, CVE-2009-1252 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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