Advisories » MGASA-2016-0038

Updated chrony packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Jan 2016
Modification date: 29 Jan 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1567

Description

In chrony before 1.31.2, when used with symmetric key encryption, the
client would accept packets encrypted with keys for any configured server,
allowing a server to impersonate other servers to clients, thus performing
a man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-2016-1567).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17605
• http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/news.html#_20_jan_2016_chrony_2_2_1_and_chrony_1_31_2_released
• http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0071/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1567

SRPMS

5/core

• chrony-1.31.2-1.mga5