Bug#990749: linuxptp: CVE-2021-3571

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Source: linuxptp
Version: 3.1-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for linuxptp.

CVE-2021-3571[0]:
| linuxptp: wrong length of one-step follow-up in transparent clock

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3571
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3571

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Note, as for CVE-2021-3570 I set the severity here as well to RC
thinking the fix needs to go into bullseye before the release. Let me
know if I can help with a NMU.

Regards,
Salvatore