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<h1>Security update for chrony</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2025:20862-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2025-10-17T12:02:52Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
<td>
<ul>
<li style="display: inline;">
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544">bsc#1246544</a>
</li>
</ul>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
<td>
<ul class="list-group">
<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Micro 6.1</li>
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<p>An update that has one fix can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for chrony fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Update to version 4.8:</li>
<li>Add maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources</li>
<li>Add -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges (default
chronyc user is set by configure script)</li>
<li>Fix refclock extpps option to work on Linux >= 6.15</li>
<li>
<p>Validate refclock samples for reachability updates</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fix racy socket creation which allows privilege escalation to root (bsc#1246544)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update to version 4.7:</p>
</li>
<li>Add opencommands directive to select remote monitoring
commands</li>
<li>Add interval option to driftfile directive</li>
<li>Add waitsynced and waitunsynced options to local directive</li>
<li>Add sanity checks for integer values in configuration</li>
<li>Add support for systemd Type=notify service</li>
<li>Add RTC refclock driver</li>
<li>Allow PHC refclock to be specified with network interface name</li>
<li>Don’t require multiple refclock samples per poll to simplify
filter configuration</li>
<li>Keep refclock reachable when dropping samples with large delay</li>
<li>Improve quantile-based filtering to adapt faster to larger
delay</li>
<li>Improve logging of selection failures</li>
<li>Detect clock interference from other processes</li>
<li>Try to reopen message log (-l option) on cyclelogs command</li>
<li>Fix sourcedir reloading to not multiply sources</li>
<li>Fix tracking offset after failed clock step</li>
<li>Drop support for NTS with Nettle < 3.6 and GnuTLS < 3.6.14</li>
<li>
<p>Drop support for building without POSIX threads</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update to version 4.6.1:</p>
</li>
<li>Add ntsaeads directive to enable only selected AEAD algorithms
for NTS.</li>
<li>Negotiate use of compliant NTS keys with AES-128-GCM-SIV AEAD
algorithm.</li>
<li>
<p>Switch to compliant NTS keys if first response from server is
NTS NAK.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Drop rcFOO symlinks for CODE16 (PED-266).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Update to version 4.6:</p>
</li>
<li>Add activate option to local directive to set activation threshold</li>
<li>Add ipv4 and ipv6 options to server/pool/peer directive</li>
<li>Add kod option to ratelimit directive for server KoD RATE support</li>
<li>Add leapseclist directive to read NIST/IERS leap-seconds.list file</li>
<li>Add ptpdomain directive to set PTP domain for NTP over PTP</li>
<li>Allow disabling pidfile</li>
<li>Improve copy server option to accept unsynchronised status instantly</li>
<li>Log one selection failure on start</li>
<li>Add offset command to modify source offset correction</li>
<li>Add timestamp sources to ntpdata report</li>
<li>Fix crash on sources reload during initstepslew or RTC initialisation</li>
<li>Fix source refreshment to not repeat failed name resolving attempts</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
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<li class="list-group-item">
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-306=1</code>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>chrony-debugsource-4.8-slfo.1.1_1.1</li>
<li>chrony-4.8-slfo.1.1_1.1</li>
<li>chrony-debuginfo-4.8-slfo.1.1_1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>chrony-pool-suse-4.8-slfo.1.1_1.1</li>
<li>chrony-pool-empty-4.8-slfo.1.1_1.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246544</a>
</li>
</ul>
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