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Mageia 8 MGASA-2021-0411 Critical: gpsd Time Manipulation Issue

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the gpsd packages in Mageia address a severe problem related to leap seconds, which previously resulted in notable backtracking of time.
It was discovered that GPSd incorrectly handled certain leap second events which would result in the time jumping back 1024 weeks on 2021-10-31

Summary

It was discovered that GPSd incorrectly handled certain leap second events which would result in the time jumping back 1024 weeks on 2021-10-31. This update provides upstream version 3.23 that has this and several

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29322

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28711

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue mageia gpsd time manipulation

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/gpsd-3.23-1.mga8

- 8/core/foxtrotgps-1.2.2-4.1.mga8

- 8/core/marble-20.12.0-1.1.mga8

- 8/core/merkaartor-0.18.4-9.1.mga8

- 8/core/navit-0.5.4-3.1.mga8

- 8/core/plasma-workspace-5.20.4-5.1.mga8

- 8/core/viking-1.8-5.1.mga8

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Publication date: 25 Aug 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0411.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue mageia gpsd time manipulation

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