Tuxfamily chrony up to 1.24-pre1 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Tuxfamily chrony up to 1.24-pre1. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to resource management. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2010-0294. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Tuxfamily chrony up to 1.24-pre1 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was presented 02/08/2010 (Website). The advisory is shared at debian.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-0294 since 01/12/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 44856 (Debian DSA-1992-1 : chrony - several vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 116894 (Fedora Update for Chrony (FEDORA-2010-1539, FEDORA-2010-1536)).

Upgrading to version 1.18 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (56126), Tenable (44856), SecurityFocus (BID 38106†), Secunia (SA38428†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-24901†). See VDB-51772 and VDB-51771 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 44856
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-1992-1 : chrony - several vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 66809
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1992-1 (chrony)
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: chrony 1.18

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10/27/2009 🔍
01/12/2010 +77 days 🔍
02/04/2010 +23 days 🔍
02/05/2010 +1 days 🔍
02/08/2010 +3 days 🔍
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02/22/2010 +14 days 🔍
03/18/2015 +1850 days 🔍
09/01/2021 +2359 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2010-0294 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2010-0294
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-51773

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X-Force: 56126
SecurityFocus: 38106 - Chrony 1.23 and Prior Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 38428 - Chrony Denial of Service Security Issue and Vulnerability, Moderately Critical
Vulnerability Center: 24901 - Chrony < 1.23.1 Syslog Messages Generation Remote DoS Vulnerability, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 09/01/2021 06:49
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (61), 02/21/2017 17:13 (14), 09/01/2021 06:49 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:999:103

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