CVE-2010-0292 Information

Description

The read_from_cmd_socket function in cmdmon.c in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1 and 1.24-pre1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by sending a spoofed cmdmon packet that triggers a continuous exchange of NOHOSTACCESS messages between two daemons a related issue to CVE-2009-3563.

Reference

http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git;a=commit;h=7864c7a70ce00369194e734eb2842ecc5f8db531 http://secunia.com/advisories/38428 http://secunia.com/advisories/38480 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367