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Bug 1254547 (CVE-2015-5196, CVE-2015-7703) - CVE-2015-7703 ntp: config command can be used to set the pidfile and drift file paths
Summary: CVE-2015-7703 ntp: config command can be used to set the pidfile and drift fi...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-5196, CVE-2015-7703
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1256667 1296209 1317795
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-08-18 11:23 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:26 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-11-06 04:13:03 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0780 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update 2016-05-10 22:35:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2583 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update 2016-11-03 12:08:36 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2015-08-18 11:23:07 UTC
It was found that the :config command can be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions. A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals). For example:

ntpq -c ':config pidfile /tmp/ntp.pid'
ntpq -c ':config driftfile /tmp/ntp.drift'

In RHEL/Fedora ntpd is configured to drop root privileges, which limits the impact of this issue. Additionally, in the default NTP configuration, runtime configuration with ntpq or ntpdc is limited to localhost, further limiting the impact of this issue.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Miroslav Lichvár of Red Hat.

Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2015-08-25 08:37:46 UTC
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1256667]

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-08-25 10:59:55 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc21 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 21. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14211

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-08-25 11:03:36 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14212

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-08-25 11:05:34 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 23. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14213

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-08-26 04:25:34 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14213

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-08-26 17:24:57 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14211

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2015-08-26 17:27:33 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.\nIf you want to test the update, you can install it with \n su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update ntp'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-14212

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2015-09-20 15:23:03 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2015-10-12 02:18:24 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-33.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Martin Prpič 2015-10-23 07:00:35 UTC
Note that this is the same issue as:

 Bug 2902 : CVE-2015-7703 configuration directives "pidfile" and "driftfile" should only be allowed locally. (RedHat) 

in http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SecurityNotice#October_2015_NTP_Security_Vulner

CVE reject request has been sent:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/137

Comment 14 Martin Prpič 2015-10-29 11:13:39 UTC
(In reply to Martin Prpic from comment #13)
> Note that this is the same issue as:
> 
>  Bug 2902 : CVE-2015-7703 configuration directives "pidfile" and "driftfile"
> should only be allowed locally. (RedHat) 
> 
> in
> http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/
> SecurityNotice#October_2015_NTP_Security_Vulner
> 
> CVE reject request has been sent:
> 
> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/137

MITRE decided to reject CVE-2015-5196; changing this bug to reference CVE-2015-7703 instead:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/146

Comment 15 Tomas Hoger 2015-10-29 13:05:57 UTC
We should keep the rejected CVE here as alias.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2015-11-04 22:50:12 UTC
ntp-4.2.6p5-34.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Martin Prpič 2015-11-09 08:48:08 UTC
Mitigation:

Disable remote runtime configuration with ntpq or ntpdc. In the default NTP configuration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, runtime configuration with ntpq or ntpdc is limited to localhost.

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 20:17:06 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2016:0780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0780.html

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 19:32:43 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2583 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2583.html


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