Bug#719132: chrony: New version, fixes security bugs
Package: chrony
Version: 1.26-4
Severity: important
8 Aug 2013 : chrony-1.29 released
It fixes the following security vulnerabilities:
Fix crash when processing crafted commands (CVE-2012-4502)
(possible with IP addresses allowed by cmdallow and localhost)
Don't send uninitialized data in SUBNETS_ACCESSED and CLIENT_ACCESSES
replies (CVE-2012-4503) (not used by chronyc)
and includes other changes:
Drop support for SUBNETS_ACCESSED and CLIENT_ACCESSES commands
CVE-2012-4502: Buffer overflow when processing crafted command packets
When the length of the REQ_SUBNETS_ACCESSED, REQ_CLIENT_ACCESSES command
requests and the RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED, RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES,
RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES_BY_INDEX, RPY_MANUAL_LIST command replies is calculated,
the number of items stored in the packet is not validated. A crafted command
request/reply can be used to crash the server/client. Only clients allowed
by cmdallow (by default only localhost) can crash the server. With chrony
versions 1.25 and 1.26 this bug has a smaller security impact as the server
requires the clients to be authenticated in order to process the subnet and
client accesses commands. In 1.27 and 1.28, however, the invalid calculated
length is included also in the authentication check which may cause another
crash. CVE-2012-4503: Uninitialized data in command replies The
RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED and RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES command replies can contain
uninitalized data from stack when the client logging is disabled or a bad
subnet is requested. These commands were never used by chronyc and they
require the client to be authenticated since version 1.25.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages chrony depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.10
ii install-info 5.1.dfsg.1-3
ii libc6 2.17-1
ii libedit2 2.11-20080614-5
ii net-tools 1.60-24.2
ii timelimit 1.8-1
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu3
Versions of packages chrony recommends:
ii udev 175-7.2
chrony suggests no packages.
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