Description
chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1, and possibly 1.24-pre1, generates a syslog message for each unauthorized cmdmon packet, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of invalid 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://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38428 ↗
- http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b710499f994823bd938fc6895f097eefb9cc59f ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38480 ↗