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Fedora update for chrony


Secunia ID

SA38498

CVE-ID

CVE-2010-0292, CVE-2010-0293, CVE-2010-0294

Release Date

08 Feb 2010

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Fedora has issued an update for chrony. This fixes a security issue and a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA38428

Solution

Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update chrony").

Original Advisory

FEDORA-2010-1539
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034887.html

FEDORA-2010-1536
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/034877.html