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Bug 500258 (CVE-2014-0021) - <net-misc/chrony-1.29.1: chronyc Protocol Response Amplification Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0021)
Summary: <net-misc/chrony-1.29.1: chronyc Protocol Response Amplification Denial of Se...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2014-0021
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/56727/
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa]
Keywords:
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2014-02-04 10:38 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2014-02-26 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-02-04 10:38:00 UTC
From ${URL} :

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in Chrony, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS 
(Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain command packets and can be exploited 
to amplify the size of responses and subsequently cause a DoS condition by sending specially crafted 
requests.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.29.1.


Solution:
Update to version 1.29.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-02-04 15:00:43 UTC
Arch teams, please test and mark stable:
=net-misc/chrony-1.29.1
Targeted stable KEYWORDS : amd64 hppa ppc sparc x86
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-02-05 11:06:09 UTC
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-02-06 06:05:20 UTC
amd64 stable
Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-02-06 06:05:39 UTC
x86 stable
Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-02-09 08:19:11 UTC
ppc stable
Comment 6 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-02-09 08:29:26 UTC
sparc stable.

Maintainer(s), please cleanup.
Security, please vote.
Comment 7 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2014-02-09 14:34:31 UTC
GLSA vote: no.
Comment 8 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-02-26 14:50:21 UTC
GLSA vote: no

Cleanup was done by Jeroen Roovers.

Closing as noglsa.