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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.1415
sol63675293: NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-1548
6 June 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: F5 BIG-IP products
F5 ARX
F5 Enterprise Manager
F5 BIG-IQ products
F5 LineRate
F5 Traffix SDC
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Network Appliance
Virtualisation
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Mitigation
CVE Names: CVE-2016-1548
Reference: ASB-2016.0046
Original Bulletin:
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/63/sol63675293.html
Comment: AusCERT recommends restricting, or disabling, external network access
to the affected devices until patches are available.
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sol63675293: NTP vulnerability CVE-2016-1548
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 06/03/2016
Vulnerability Description
** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or
individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the
candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be
provided. (CVE-2016-1548)
Impact
An attacker can change the time of, or deny service to, an ntpd client.
Security Issue Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 591455 (BIG-IP), ID 594057 (BIG-IQ), ID
594059 (Enterprise Manager), ID 507785 (ARX), and LRS-60675 (LineRate) to this
vulnerability, and has evaluated the currently supported releases for
potential vulnerability.
To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or
features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about
releases or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following
table:
Product Versions known to be vulnerable Versions known to be not vulnerable Severity Vulnerable component or feature
BIG-IP LTM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP AAM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
BIG-IP AFM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
BIG-IP Analytics 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
11.2.1
BIG-IP APM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP ASM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP DNS 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IP Edge Gateway 11.2.1 None Medium NTP
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP GTM 11.4.0 - 11.6.1 None Medium NTP
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP Link Controller 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP PEM 12.0.0 - 12.1.0 None Medium NTP
11.4.0 - 11.6.1
BIG-IP PSM 11.4.0 - 11.4.1 None Medium NTP
11.2.1
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP WebAccelerator 11.2.1 None Medium NTP
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP WOM 11.2.1 None Medium NTP
10.2.1 - 10.2.4
ARX 6.2.0 - 6.4.0 None Low NTP
Enterprise Manager 3.1.1 None Medium NTP
FirePass None 7.0.0 Not vulnerable None
BIG-IQ Cloud 4.0.0 - 4.5.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IQ Device 4.2.0 - 4.5.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IQ Security 4.0.0 - 4.5.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IQ ADC 4.5.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IQ Centralized Management 4.6.0 None Medium NTP
BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0 None Medium NTP
LineRate 2.5.0 - 2.6.1 None Medium NTP
F5 MobileSafe None 1.0.0 Not vulnerable None
F5 WebSafe None 1.0.0 Not vulnerable None
Traffix SDC 5.0.0 None Low NTP
4.0.0 - 4.4.0
3.3.2 - 3.5.1
Vulnerability Recommended Actions
If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable
column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed
in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an
older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a
non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists.
F5 responds to vulnerabilities in accordance with the Severity values
published in the previous table. The Severity values and other security
vulnerability parameters are defined in SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security
vulnerability response policy.
Supplemental Information
SOL9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
SOL9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
SOL4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
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