A linuxptp security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Rocky Linux 8.

RLSA-2021:4321 Moderate: linuxptp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Name:
RLSA-2021:4321

Synopsis:
Moderate: linuxptp security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity:
Moderate

Topic:
An update for linuxptp is now available for Rocky Linux 8.
Rocky Linux Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description:
The linuxptp packages provide Precision Time Protocol (PTP) implementation for Linux according to IEEE standard 1588 for Linux. The dual design goals are to provide a robust implementation of the standard and to use the most relevant and modern Application Programming Interfaces (API) offered by the Linux kernel.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: linuxptp (3.1.1). (BZ#1895005)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Affected products:

• Rocky Linux 8

Publish date:
2021-11-15

RPMS:

• linuxptp-3.1.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• linuxptp-3.1.1-1.el8.src.rpm
• linuxptp-3.1.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• linuxptp-debuginfo-3.1.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• linuxptp-debuginfo-3.1.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• linuxptp-debugsource-3.1.1-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• linuxptp-debugsource-3.1.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm