Chrony: Multiple vulnerabilities

Chrony: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chrony, possibly allowing remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. chrony February 28, 2014 February 28, 2014: 1 480364 remote 1.29 1.29

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

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

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

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Chrony users should upgrade to the latest version:


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

CVE-2012-4502 CVE-2012-4503 jaervosz pinkbyte