Name : ntp Product : Fedora 20 Version : 4.2.6p5 Release : 19.fc20 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, ntpdate is in the ntpdate package and sntp is in the sntp package. The documentation is in the ntp-doc package.
Security fix for CVE-2014-9294, CVE-2014-9295, CVE-2014-9293, CVE-2014-9296 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ChangeLog:
* Fri Dec 19 2014 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-19 - don't generate weak control key for resolver (CVE-2014-9293) - don't generate weak MD5 keys in ntp-keygen (CVE-2014-9294) - fix buffer overflows via specially-crafted packets (CVE-2014-9295) - don't mobilize passive association when authentication fails (CVE-2014-9296) * Mon Dec 9 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com> 4.2.6p5-18 - fix calculation of root dispersion (#1037981) - refresh peers on routing updates (#1028176) - drop patch allowing -p and -u options to be used twice (#639101) - remove unnecessary IPv6 restrict line from default ntp.conf - replace hardening build flags with _hardened_build ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
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/.