CVE-2010-0294

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2010-0294 · Published 08/02/2010 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2010-0294 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting chrony (tuxfamily).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 85.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrony tuxfamily	`= 1.18= 1.19= 1.19-1= 1.19.99.1= 1.19.99.2= 1.19.99.3= 1.20= 1.21= 1.21-pre1= 1.24-pre1≤ 1.23-pre1`	No fix yet

Description

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.

References

chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html · Patch
git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git
secunia.com/advisories/38428 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/38480 · Vendor Advisory
debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1992
securityfocus.com/bid/38106 · Patch
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

chrony

tuxfamily

= 1.18= 1.19= 1.19-1= 1.19.99.1= 1.19.99.2= 1.19.99.3= 1.20= 1.21= 1.21-pre1= 1.24-pre1≤ 1.23-pre1

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