CVE-2010-0292

The read_from_cmd_socket function in cmdmon.c in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1, and 1.24-pre1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by sending a spoofed cmdmon packet that triggers a continuous exchange of NOHOSTACCESS messages between two daemons, a related issue to CVE-2009-3563.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2010-02-08

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

• Chrony (Tuxfamily)

References

• http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html
• http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7864c7a70ce00369194e734eb2842ecc…
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38428
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38480
• http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367