[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: chrony-1.29-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-14549
2013-08-10 02:44:39
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Name        : chrony
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.29
Release     : 1.fc19
URL         : http://chrony.tuxfamily.org
Summary     : An NTP client/server
Description :
A client/server for the Network Time Protocol, this program keeps your
computer's clock accurate. It was specially designed to support
systems with intermittent internet connections, but it also works well
in permanently connected environments. It can use also hardware reference
clocks, system real-time clock or manual input as time references.

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Update Information:

This update fixes two security vulnerabilities: a crash when processing crafted commands (CVE-2012-4502) and uninitialized data sent in command replies (CVE-2012-4503).
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug  8 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 1.29-1
- update to 1.29 (CVE-2012-4502, CVE-2012-4503)
* Sat Aug  3 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.28-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 17 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 1.28-1
- update to 1.28
- change default makestep limit to 10 seconds
* Mon Jun 24 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 1.28-0.2.pre1
- buildrequire systemd-units
* Fri Jun 21 2013 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> 1.28-0.1.pre1
- update to 1.28-pre1
- listen for commands only on localhost by default
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #846392 - CVE-2012-4502 CVE-2012-4503 chrony: Two security flaws fixed in chrony-1.29 release
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846392
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update chrony' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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