[SECURITY] Fedora 12 Update: chrony-1.23-8.20081106gitbe42b4.fc12
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Sat Feb 6 00:07:09 UTC 2010
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-1539
2010-02-05 23:24:17
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Name : chrony
Product : Fedora 12
Version : 1.23
Release : 8.20081106gitbe42b4.fc12
URL : http://chrony.sunsite.dk
Summary : An NTP client/server
Description :
A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your
computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support
systems with dial-up Internet connections, and also supports computers
in permanently connected environments.
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Update Information:
This update fixes several vulnerabilities that can be exploited for a remote
denial of service.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Feb 4 2010 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 1.23-8.20081106gitbe42b4
- don't reply to invalid cmdmon packets (#555367, CVE-2010-0292)
- limit client log memory size (#555367, CVE-2010-0293)
- limit rate of syslog messages (#555367, CVE-2010-0294)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #555367 - CVE-2010-0292 chrony susceptible to DoS attacks (CVE-2010-0293 CVE-2010-0294)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update chrony' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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