[Secure-testing-team] Bug#812923: chrony: CVE-2016-1567

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: chrony
Version: 1.30-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for chrony.

CVE-2016-1567[0]:
| chrony before 1.31.2 and 2.x before 2.2.1 do not verify peer
| associations of symmetric keys when authenticating packets, which
| might allow remote attackers to conduct impersonation attacks via an
| arbitrary trusted key, aka a "skeleton key."

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1567

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore