Description
The client logging functionality in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1 does not restrict the amount of memory used for storage of client information, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via spoofed (1) NTP or (2) cmdmon packets.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106 ↗
- http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2f63cf448560fdb96b80d8488aae6a15b802a753 ↗
- http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38428 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38480 ↗