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Medium ALAS2-2021-1575 1 CVE

Moderate: chrony security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jan 5, 2021 · Updated Jan 7, 2021

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-14367: A flaw was found in chrony when creating the PID file under the /var/run/chrony folder. The file is created during chronyd startup while still running as the root user, and when it's opened for writing, chronyd does not check for an existing symbolic link with the same file name. This flaw allows an attacker with privileged access to create a symlink with the default PID file name pointing to any destination file in the system, resulting in data loss and a denial of service due to the path traversal. 99999: CVE-2020-14367 chrony: Insecure writing to PID file

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 chrony 0:3.5.1-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 chrony-debuginfo 0:3.5.1-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-14367.html