CVE-2015-1821
Public on 2015-04-16
Modified on 2015-06-02
Description
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way Chrony stored certain addresses when configuring NTP or cmdmon access. An attacker that has the command key and is allowed to access cmdmon (only localhost is allowed by default) could use this flaw to crash chronyd or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the chronyd process.
Severity
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux 1 | chrony | 2015-06-02 | ALAS-2015-539 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
---|---|---|---|
Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |