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CVE-2015-1822

chrony: uninitialized pointer in cmdmon reply slots

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6

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 · 6
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-456 · Missing Initialization of a Variable