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Debian 7 DSA-2760-1 Critical: Chrony: Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2013
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA-2760-1 highlights important corrections for a buffer overflow vulnerability in chrony affecting both stable and oldstable distributions.
Florian Weimer discovered two security problems in the Chrony time synchronisation software (buffer overflows and use of uninitialised data in command replies)
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Summary

Florian Weimer discovered two security problems in the Chrony time
synchronisation software (buffer overflows and use of uninitialised data
in command replies).

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems will be fixed
soon in 1.24-3+squeeze1 (due to a technical restriction in the archive
processing scripts the two updates cannot be released together).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.24-3.1+deb7u2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your chrony packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: chrony
CVE ID: CVE-2012-4502 CVE-2012-4503

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