SUSE-SU-2021:4147-1

This update for chrony fixes the following issues:

Chrony was updated to 4.1:

• Add support for NTS servers specified by IP address (matching Subject Alternative Name in server certificate)
• Add source-specific configuration of trusted certificates
• Allow multiple files and directories with trusted certificates
• Allow multiple pairs of server keys and certificates
• Add copy option to server/pool directive
• Increase PPS lock limit to 40% of pulse interval
• Perform source selection immediately after loading dump files
• Reload dump files for addresses negotiated by NTS-KE server
• Update seccomp filter and add less restrictive level
• Restart ongoing name resolution on online command
• Fix dump files to not include uncorrected offset
• Fix initstepslew to accept time from own NTP clients
• Reset NTP address and port when no longer negotiated by NTS-KE server

• Update clknetsim to snapshot f89702d.

• Ensure the correct pool packages are installed for openSUSE and SLE (bsc#1180689).

• Enable syscallfilter unconditionally (bsc#1181826).

Chrony was updated to 4.0:

Enhancements

• Add support for Network Time Security (NTS) authentication

• Add support for AES-CMAC keys (AES128, AES256) with Nettle

• Add authselectmode directive to control selection of unauthenticated sources

• Add binddevice, bindacqdevice, bindcmddevice directives

• Add confdir directive to better support fragmented configuration

• Add sourcedir directive and 'reload sources' command to support dynamic NTP sources specified in files

• Add clockprecision directive

• Add dscp directive to set Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)

• Add -L option to limit log messages by severity

• Add -p option to print whole configuration with included files

• Add -U option to allow start under non-root user

• Allow maxsamples to be set to 1 for faster update with -q/-Q option

• Avoid replacing NTP sources with sources that have unreachable address

• Improve pools to repeat name resolution to get 'maxsources' sources

• Improve source selection with trusted sources

• Improve NTP loop test to prevent synchronisation to itself

• Repeat iburst when NTP source is switched from offline state to online

• Update clock synchronisation status and leap status more frequently

• Update seccomp filter

• Add 'add pool' command

• Add 'reset sources' command to drop all measurements

• Add authdata command to print details about NTP authentication

• Add selectdata command to print details about source selection

• Add -N option and sourcename command to print original names of sources

• Add -a option to some commands to print also unresolved sources

• Add -k, -p, -r options to clients command to select, limit, reset data

• Bug fixes

• Don’t set interface for NTP responses to allow asymmetric routing

• Handle RTCs that don’t support interrupts

• Respond to command requests with correct address on multihomed hosts

• Removed features

• Drop support for RIPEMD keys (RMD128, RMD160, RMD256, RMD320)

• Drop support for long (non-standard) MACs in NTPv4 packets (chrony 2.x clients using non-MD5/SHA1 keys need to use option 'version 3')

• By default we don't write log files but log to journald, so only recommend logrotate.

• Adjust and rename the sysconfig file, so that it matches the expectations of chronyd.service (bsc#1173277).

Chrony was updated to 3.5.1:

• Create new file when writing pidfile (CVE-2020-14367, bsc#1174911)

• Add chrony-pool-suse and chrony-pool-openSUSE subpackages that preconfigure chrony to use NTP servers from the respective pools for SUSE and openSUSE (bsc#1156884, SLE-11424).

• Add chrony-pool-empty to still allow installing chrony without preconfigured servers.

• Use iburst in the default pool statements to speed up initial synchronisation (bsc#1172113).

• Update clknetsim to version 79ffe44 (fixes bsc#1162964).

Update to 3.5:

• Add support for more accurate reading of PHC on Linux 5.0
• Add support for hardware timestamping on interfaces with read-only timestamping configuration
• Add support for memory locking and real-time priority on FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris
• Update seccomp filter to work on more architectures
• Validate refclock driver options
• Fix bindaddress directive on FreeBSD
• Fix transposition of hardware RX timestamp on Linux 4.13 and later
• Fix building on non-glibc systems

• Fix location of helper script in chrony-dnssrv@.service (bsc#1128846).

• Read runtime servers from /var/run/netconfig/chrony.servers (bsc#1099272)

• Move chrony-helper to /usr/lib/chrony/helper, because there should be no executables in /usr/share.

• Remove discrepancies between spec file and chrony-tmpfiles (bsc#1115529)

Update to version 3.4

• Enhancements

  • Add filter option to server/pool/peer directive
  • Add minsamples and maxsamples options to hwtimestamp directive
  • Add support for faster frequency adjustments in Linux 4.19
  • Change default pidfile to /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid to allow chronyd without root privileges to remove it on exit
  • Disable sub-second polling intervals for distant NTP sources
  • Extend range of supported sub-second polling intervals
  • Get/set IPv4 destination/source address of NTP packets on FreeBSD
  • Make burst options and command useful with short polling intervals
  • Modify auto_offline option to activate when sending request failed
  • Respond from interface that received NTP request if possible
  • Add onoffline command to switch between online and offline state according to current system network configuration
  • Improve example NetworkManager dispatcher script

• Bug fixes

  • Avoid waiting in Linux getrandom system call
  • Fix PPS support on FreeBSD and NetBSD

Update to version 3.3

• Enhancements:

  • Add burst option to server/pool directive
  • Add stratum and tai options to refclock directive
  • Add support for Nettle crypto library
  • Add workaround for missing kernel receive timestamps on Linux
  • Wait for late hardware transmit timestamps
  • Improve source selection with unreachable sources
  • Improve protection against replay attacks on symmetric mode
  • Allow PHC refclock to use socket in /var/run/chrony
  • Add shutdown command to stop chronyd
  • Simplify format of response to manual list command
  • Improve handling of unknown responses in chronyc

• Bug fixes:

  • Respond to NTPv1 client requests with zero mode
  • Fix -x option to not require CAP_SYS_TIME under non-root user
  • Fix acquisitionport directive to work with privilege separation
  • Fix handling of socket errors on Linux to avoid high CPU usage
  • Fix chronyc to not get stuck in infinite loop after clock step

• Added /etc/chrony.d/ directory to the package (bsc#1083597) Modifed default chrony.conf to add 'include /etc/chrony.d/*'

• Enable pps support

Upgraded to version 3.2:

Enhancements

• Improve stability with NTP sources and reference clocks
• Improve stability with hardware timestamping
• Improve support for NTP interleaved modes
• Control frequency of system clock on macOS 10.13 and later
• Set TAI-UTC offset of system clock with leapsectz directive
• Minimise data in client requests to improve privacy
• Allow transmit-only hardware timestamping
• Add support for new timestamping options introduced in Linux 4.13
• Add root delay, root dispersion and maximum error to tracking log
• Add mindelay and asymmetry options to server/peer/pool directive
• Add extpps option to PHC refclock to timestamp external PPS signal
• Add pps option to refclock directive to treat any refclock as PPS
• Add width option to refclock directive to filter wrong pulse edges
• Add rxfilter option to hwtimestamp directive
• Add -x option to disable control of system clock
• Add -l option to log to specified file instead of syslog
• Allow multiple command-line options to be specified together
• Allow starting without root privileges with -Q option
• Update seccomp filter for new glibc versions
• Dump history on exit by default with dumpdir directive
• Use hardening compiler options by default

Bug fixes

• Don't drop PHC samples with low-resolution system clock
• Ignore outliers in PHC tracking, RTC tracking, manual input
• Increase polling interval when peer is not responding
• Exit with error message when include directive fails
• Don't allow slash after hostname in allow/deny directive/command
• Try to connect to all addresses in chronyc before giving up

Upgraded to version 3.1:

• Enhancements

  • Add support for precise cross timestamping of PHC on Linux
  • Add minpoll, precision, nocrossts options to hwtimestamp directive
  • Add rawmeasurements option to log directive and modify measurements option to log only valid measurements from synchronised sources
  • Allow sub-second polling interval with NTP sources

• Bug fixes

  • Fix time smoothing in interleaved mode

Upgraded to version 3.0:

• Enhancements

  • Add support for software and hardware timestamping on Linux
  • Add support for client/server and symmetric interleaved modes
  • Add support for MS-SNTP authentication in Samba
  • Add support for truncated MACs in NTPv4 packets
  • Estimate and correct for asymmetric network jitter
  • Increase default minsamples and polltarget to improve stability with very low jitter
  • Add maxjitter directive to limit source selection by jitter
  • Add offset option to server/pool/peer directive
  • Add maxlockage option to refclock directive
  • Add -t option to chronyd to exit after specified time
  • Add partial protection against replay attacks on symmetric mode
  • Don't reset polling interval when switching sources to online state
  • Allow rate limiting with very short intervals
  • Improve maximum server throughput on Linux and NetBSD
  • Remove dump files after start
  • Add tab-completion to chronyc with libedit/readline
  • Add ntpdata command to print details about NTP measurements
  • Allow all source options to be set in add server/peer command
  • Indicate truncated addresses/hostnames in chronyc output
  • Print reference IDs as hexadecimal numbers to avoid confusion with IPv4 addresses

• Bug fixes

  • Fix crash with disabled asynchronous name resolving

Upgraded to version 2.4.1:

• Bug fixes

  • Fix processing of kernel timestamps on non-Linux systems
  • Fix crash with smoothtime directive
  • Fix validation of refclock sample times
  • Fix parsing of refclock directive

update to 2.4:

• Enhancements

  • Add orphan option to local directive for orphan mode compatible with ntpd
  • Add distance option to local directive to set activation threshold (1 second by default)
  • Add maxdrift directive to set maximum allowed drift of system clock
  • Try to replace NTP sources exceeding maximum distance
  • Randomise source replacement to avoid getting stuck with bad sources
  • Randomise selection of sources from pools on start
  • Ignore reference timestamp as ntpd doesn't always set it correctly
  • Modify tracking report to use same values as seen by NTP clients
  • Add -c option to chronyc to write reports in CSV format
  • Provide detailed manual pages

• Bug fixes

  • Fix SOCK refclock to work correctly when not specified as last refclock
  • Fix initstepslew and -q/-Q options to accept time from own NTP clients
  • Fix authentication with keys using 512-bit hash functions
  • Fix crash on exit when multiple signals are received
  • Fix conversion of very small floating-point numbers in command packets