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Fedora 19 : chrony-1.29.1-1.fc19 (2014-1916)

low Nessus Plugin ID 72593

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes the following security vulnerability :

 - Modify chronyc protocol to prevent amplification attacks (CVE-2014-0021) (incompatible with previous protocol version, chronyc supports both)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected chrony package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1054790

http://www.nessus.org/u?d9f9d037

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 72593

File Name: fedora_2014-1916.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.6

Temporal Score: 2.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:chrony, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0021

BID: 65035

FEDORA: 2014-1916