-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-5674 2009-05-30 01:47:08 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : ntp Product : Fedora 11 Version : 4.2.4p7 Release : 2.fc11 URL : http://www.ntp.org Summary : The NTP daemon and utilities 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update fixes a denial of service issue if autokey is enabled (default is disabled). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu May 28 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlich...@redhat.com> 4.2.4p7-2 - fix frequency calculation when starting with no drift file - reduce phase adjustments beyond Allan intercept in daemon PLL * Tue May 19 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlich...@redhat.com> 4.2.4p7-1 - update to 4.2.4p7 (CVE-2009-1252) - improve PLL response when kernel discipline is disabled - don't log STA_MODE changes - enable nanokernel support - allow minpoll 3 - increase memlock limit - move html documentation to -doc subpackage (#492444) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #499694 - CVE-2009-1252 ntp: remote arbitrary code execution vulnerability if autokeys is enabled https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499694 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ntp' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce