[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: ntp-4.2.4p6-1.fc9

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-0547
2009-01-14 23:38:34
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Name        : ntp
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 4.2.4p6
Release     : 1.fc9
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.

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Update Information:

This update fixes CVE-2009-0021:    NTP 4.2.4 before 4.2.4p5 and 4.2.5 before
4.2.5p150 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL
EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of
the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys,
a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jan 12 2009 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.4p6-1.fc9
- update to 4.2.4p6 (CVE-2009-0021)
* Wed Oct  8 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.4p5-2.fc9
- don't write drift file upon exit
- run ntpq with full path in ntp-wait script
* Fri Aug 29 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.4p5-1
- update to 4.2.4p5
- add support for fast interface updates
* Mon Jul 28 2008 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 4.2.4p4-7
- reload resolv.conf after temporary failure in name resolution (#456743)
- use clock_gettime
- make subpackages for perl scripts and ntpdate (#452097, #456116)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #476807 - CVE-2009-0021 ntp incorrectly checks for malformed signatures
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476807
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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/.

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