Chrony: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

Chrony is a pair of programs which are used to maintain the accuracy of the system clock on a computer.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chrony. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition by sending specially crafted packets.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chrony users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/chrony-1.29"