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CVE-2010-0294

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.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2010-0294 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 1 product from tuxfamily organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2010, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2010-02-08T20:30:01.263

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	≤ 1.23-pre1	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.18	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.19	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.19-1	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.19.99.1	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.19.99.2	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.19.99.3	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.20	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.21	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.21-pre1	Yes
Application	tuxfamily	chrony	1.24-pre1	Yes

References

http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b710499f994823bd938fc6895f097eefb9cc59f ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/38428 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/38480 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106 Patch ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367 ([email protected])
http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b710499f994823bd938fc6895f097eefb9cc59f (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/38428 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/38480 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38106 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For tuxfamily's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.