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CVE-2010-0294

Published: Feb 8, 2010Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-399
5.0MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
2.7%
Top 15.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1, and possibly 1.24-pre1, generates a syslog message for each unauthorized cmdmon packet, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of invalid packets.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LAu:NC:NI:NA:P
Exploitability
AV:NAccess Vector
Network
AC:LAccess Complexity
Low
Au:NAuthentication
None
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:PAvailability
Partial
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Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected Products

tuxfamily
oss-projectaka chrony
chronyOn-prem
Networking Infrastructure / dns-dhcp-ntp
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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References

http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html
chrony.tuxfamily.org
http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b710499f994823bd938fc6895f097eefb9cc59f
git.tuxfamily.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/38428
secunia.com
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