CVE-2010-0294

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    CVE-2010-0294

    Published: 8 Feb 2010Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html, http://secunia.com/advisories/38428, http://secunia.com/advisories/38480, http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992, http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367, http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b710499f994823bd938fc6895f097eefb9cc59f

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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