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CVE-2015-1822

Public on 2015-04-16
Modified on 2015-06-02
Description

An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found when allocating memory to save unacknowledged replies to authenticated command requests. An attacker that has the command key and is allowed to access cmdmon (only localhost is allowed by default) could use this flaw to crash chronyd or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the chronyd process.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 chrony 2015-06-02 22:25 ALAS-2015-539

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P