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CVE-2010-0293
The client logging functionality in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1 does not restrict the amount of memory used for storage of client…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.7%
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- redhat
Description
The client logging functionality in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1 does not restrict the amount of memory used for storage of client information, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via spoofed (1) NTP or (2) cmdmon packets.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (7)
- DSA-1992 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 38106 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=gitroot/chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2f63cf448560fdb96b80d8488aae6a15b802a753 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555367 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38480 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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