Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting chrony package, versions [,1.29)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.24% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHRONY-2371513
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed5 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Nov 2013

CVE-2012-4502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chrony to version 1.29 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Multiple integer overflows in pktlength.c in Chrony before 1.29 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted (1) REQ_SUBNETS_ACCESSED or (2) REQ_CLIENT_ACCESSES command request to the PKL_CommandLength function or crafted (3) RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED, (4) RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES, (5) RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES_BY_INDEX, or (6) RPY_MANUAL_LIST command reply to the PKL_ReplyLength function, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or buffer overflow. NOTE: versions 1.27 and 1.28 do not require authentication to exploit.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1