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

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 . MGASA-2021-0411 - Updated gpsd packages fix security vulnerability and other bugs Publication date: 25 Aug 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0411.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 8 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 other upstream issues fixed. It also fixes issues that prevents it to start properly (mga#28711). The packages: foxtrotgps, marble, merkaartor, navit, plasma-workspace, viking have been rebuild for the updated gpsd libs. References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29322 - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28711 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 . Recent updates to the gpsd packages in Mageia address a severe problem related to leap seconds, which previously resulted in notable backtracking of time.. Mageia Gpsd Update, Security Fix, Time Manipulation Issue. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Aug 25, 2021 •Critical Mageia