CVE-2012-4502 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=chrony/chrony.git;a=commitdiff;h=7712455d9aa33d0db0945effaa07e900b85987b1 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.chrony.announce/15 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/332 http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2760 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846392