SUSE SLES12 Security Update : chrony (SUSE-SU-2025:3868-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:3868-1 advisory. Security issues fixed: - Race condition during socket creation by chronyc allows privilege escalation from user chrony to root bsc1246544. Other issues...

Security update for chrony

This update for chrony fixes the following issues: Update to version 4.8: Add maxunreach option to limit selection of unreachable sources Add -u option to chronyc to drop root privileges default chronyc user is set by configure script Fix refclock extpps option to work on Linux = 6.15 Validate...

Configure the chronyd Service Properly

If the time server is incorrectly configured, the time of the local server may be inconsistent with that of other servers or the standard time. If time is incorrect, services that strongly depend on time synchronization, such as market transactions, may be interrupted, and attackers may exploit t...