CVE-2015-1822 Information

Description

chrony before 1.31.1 does not initialize the last \next\ pointer when saving unacknowledged replies to command requests which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of command requests.

Reference

http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/chrony.tuxfamily.org/chrony-announce/2015/04/msg00002.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3222 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/73956 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-01