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CVE-2015-1821

chrony: Heap out of bound write in address filter

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 7, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write