USN-4563-2: NTP vulnerability

20 April 2021

NTP could be made to crash.

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Releases

Packages

  • ntp - Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs

Details

USN-4563-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTP. This update provides the
corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2018-7182 introduced a NULL pointer
dereference into NTP. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a
denial of service (crash).

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.10
Ubuntu 20.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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