Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0038 (chrony)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0038: Updated chrony packages fix security vulnerability 
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Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:03:24 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0038 - Updated chrony packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 29 Jan 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0038.html

Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2016-1567

Description:
In chrony before 1.31.2, when used with symmetric key encryption, the
client would accept packets encrypted with keys for any configured server,
allowing a server to impersonate other servers to clients, thus performing
a man-in-the-middle attack (CVE-2016-1567).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17605

- http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/news.html#_20_jan_2016_chrony...
- http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0071/

- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1567


SRPMS:
- 5/core/chrony-1.31.2-1.mga5