Spoofed packets that failed some of the early NTP tests in the receive() function in ntp_proto.c may still enter the process_packet() function and set certain peer variables before the packet is actually dropped, which could be useful in some attacks on ntpd as a client. For instance, with ntpd configured to use three servers it is possible to arm the leap second timer by setting the leap bits of the three sources. When a genuine packet is received and the clock is updated, the leap value will be overwritten for that source, but the two other sources will still be able to form a majority and arm the leap timer. Disabling sources in the source selection by setting their leap or stratum as unsychronized could be useful in some cases too. Setting the root delay and dispersion could change the outcome of the selection routine as well.
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1342128]
Upstream bug: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/NtpBug3044 External References: http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#June_2016_ntp_4_2_8p8_NTP_Securi
Could anyone suggest any specific reason of closing the bug without fixing it. Secondly advisory for customers who have these vulnerabilities
(In reply to Harkanwal from comment #4) > Could anyone suggest any specific reason of closing the bug without fixing > it. Secondly advisory for customers who have these vulnerabilities Hi, this issue was rated as having a Moderate security impact. This issue requires an attacker to know addresses of more than half of the configured sources, and only affects ntpd acting as a client. Taking this into consideration, the issue is not planned to be fixed. We may revisit this issue in a future minor RHEL release.
ntp-4.2.6p5-41.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ntp-4.2.6p5-41.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
ntp-4.2.6p5-41.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.