Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ntp
announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:092.
Solution
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDVSA-2009:092
Insight
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ntp:
Requesting peer information from a malicious remote time server may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution (CVE-2009-0159).
The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
Affected: 2008.1, 2009.0, Corporate 3.0, Corporate 4.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2009-0159 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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