ALAS-2014-462


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-462
Advisory Release Date: 2014-12-19 14:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-12-19 14:09 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

It was found that ntpd automatically generated weak keys for its internal use if no ntpdc request authentication key was specified in the ntp.conf configuration file. A remote attacker able to match the configured IP restrictions could guess the generated key, and possibly use it to send ntpdc query or configuration requests. (CVE-2014-9293)

It was found that ntp-keygen used a weak method for generating MD5 keys. This could possibly allow an attacker to guess generated MD5 keys that could then be used to spoof an NTP client or server. Note: it is recommended to regenerate any MD5 keys that had explicitly been generated with ntp-keygen; the default installation does not contain such keys). (CVE-2014-9294)

Multiple buffer overflow flaws were discovered in ntpd's crypto_recv(), ctl_putdata(), and configure() functions. A remote attacker could use either of these flaws to send a specially crafted request packet that could crash ntpd or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the ntp user. Note: the crypto_recv() flaw requires non default configurations to be active, while the ctl_putdata() flaw, by default, can only be exploited via local attackers, and the configure() flaw requires additional authentication to exploit. (CVE-2014-9295)

A missing return statement in the receive() function could potentially allow a remote attacker to bypass NTP's authentication mechanism. (CVE-2014-9296)


Affected Packages:

ntp


Issue Correction:
Run yum update ntp to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.i686
    ntp-debuginfo-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.i686
    ntp-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.i686
    ntpdate-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    ntp-doc-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.noarch

src:
    ntp-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    ntp-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.x86_64
    ntp-perl-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.x86_64
    ntpdate-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.x86_64
    ntp-debuginfo-4.2.6p5-2.22.amzn1.x86_64