CVE-2015-1853 (GCVE-0-2015-1853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-12-09 18:53 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
chrony before 1.31.1 does not properly protect state variables in authenticated symmetric NTP associations, which allows remote attackers with knowledge of NTP peering to cause a denial of service (inability to synchronize) via random timestamps in crafted NTP data packets.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- Other
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-01 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2015-04-07 00:00
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