CVE-2015-1822
chrony: uninitialized pointer in cmdmon reply slots
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · April 7, 2015
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found when allocating memory to save unacknowledged replies to authenticated command requests. 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 · 6AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-456 · Missing Initialization of a Variable