USN-3349-1: NTP vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3349-1

5th July, 2017

ntp vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04



• Ubuntu 16.10



• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS



• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in NTP.

Software description

• ntp
  - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs
  
  

Details

Yihan Lian discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain large request
data values. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. ()

Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain crafted
broadcast mode packets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 16.10. ()

Miroslav Lichvar discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain responses.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and
Ubuntu 16.10. ()

Brian Utterback, Sharon Goldberg and Aanchal Malhotra discovered that NTP
incorrectly performed initial sync calculations. This issue only applied
to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. ()

Matthew Van Gund discovered that NTP incorrectly handled origin timestamp
checks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial
of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04.
()

Matthew Van Gundy discovered that NTP incorrectly handled the trap service.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NTP to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04
LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10. ()

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled memory when processing long
variables. A remote authenticated user could possibly use this issue to
cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only
applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04. ()

It was discovered that NTP incorrectly handled certain invalid settings
in a :config directive. A remote authenticated user could possibly use
this issue to cause NTP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
()

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

Ubuntu 16.10:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
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CVE-2017-6464