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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1992-1] New chrony packages fix denial of service (1/2)

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Thu Feb 4 18:50:03 2010
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1992-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde February 4th, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : chrony
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    Debian bug : none
    CVE ID : CVE-2010-0292 CVE-2010-0293 CVE-2010-0294

    Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in chrony, a pair of programs which are used to maintain the accuracy of the system clock on a computer.
    This issues are similar to the NTP security flaw CVE-2009-3563. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

    CVE-2010-0292

    chronyd replies to all cmdmon packets with NOHOSTACCESS messages even for
    unauthorized hosts. An attacker can abuse this behaviour to force two
    chronyd instances to play packet ping-pong by sending such a packet with
    spoofed source address and port. This results in high CPU and network
    usage and thus denial of service conditions.

    CVE-2010-0293

    The client logging facility of chronyd doesn't limit memory that is used
    to store client information. An attacker can cause chronyd to allocate
    large amounts of memory by sending NTP or cmdmon packets with spoofed
    source addresses resulting in memory exhaustion.

    CVE-2010-0294

    chronyd lacks of a rate limit control to the syslog facility when logging
    received packets from unauthorized hosts. This allows an attacker to
    cause denial of service conditions via filling up the logs and thus disk
    space by repeatedly sending invalid cmdmon packets.


    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.21z-5+etch1.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.23-6+lenny1.

    For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, this problem
    will be fixed soon.


    We recommend that you upgrade your chrony packages.

    Upgrade instructions
    - --------------------

    wget url
    will fetch the file for you
    dpkg -i file.deb
    will install the referenced file.

    If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
    sources.list as given below:

    apt-get update
    will update the internal database
    apt-get upgrade
    will install corrected packages

    You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
    footer to the proper configuration.


    Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 310709 84f76a73dff5a3c9e9f11f3c29a4e93b
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 629 41c78c176d00f2034298f0f91d9dcc7e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 157657 aef816a20684f142795441c9d0c2c39a

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 354606 9c8d999fe33d00f7a2c7582b265ab1e8

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 337452 d87cea1f14f0834d91540f6125f53de9

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 335840 06b572cf16b4331c6af3eadd62054de6

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 341488 919e32d2603bf6503be5f051b9a0111f

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 328578 f5ba5a2a8e08fe6978704cea5874b222

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 383552 c904705550097e5f94305517fe83b422

    mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_mipsel.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 355940 12845d0599bef378d006f790776a4c79

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 338000 ee2d8986bb062f6dc88ed4cd1e57966a

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 335212 fb9f62d0eea41f68b5a67d0c961a8045

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.21z-5+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 327336 872180a40677910e8010ec313eab73a8


    Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny
    - --------------------------------

    Debian (stable)
    - ---------------

    Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23-6+lenny1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1014 20987586fe342a0b48ebe8432f7ab9ef
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 321015 ffce77695e55d8efda19ab0b78309c23
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23-6+lenny1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 162829 a6d0c6c4d06b22630b00361f0c0e0e37

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23-6+lenny1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 350622 cc8748f4e26828a481397c76d4b7178b

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23-6+lenny1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 334714 8cdc4b9808d7eb84a901359959bd43d9

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/chrony/chrony_1.23-6+lenny1_arm.deb

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