-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1803 2014-07-03 17:17:22 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : chrony Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 1.30 Release : 1.el5 URL : http://chrony.tuxfamily.org 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 intermittent internet connections, but it also works well in permanently connected environments. It can use also hardware reference clocks, system real-time clock or manual input as time references.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

This is an update to the latest upstream release. This fixes the following security vulnerability:

- Modify chronyc protocol to prevent amplification attacks (CVE-2014-0021) (incompatible with previous protocol version, chronyc supports both)

Changelog is available here: http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #1054790 - CVE-2014-0021 chrony: DDoS via amplification in cmdmon protocol https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054790 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. 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 EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------