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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1803
2014-07-03 17:17:22
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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.
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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
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1054790 - CVE-2014-0021 chrony: DDoS via amplification in cmdmon protocol
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054790
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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
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