CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1853

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2019-12-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-12-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

chrony before 1.31.1 does not properly protect state variables in authenticated symmetric NTP associations, which allows remote attackers with knowledge of NTP peering to cause a denial of service (inability to synchronize) via random timestamps in crafted NTP data packets.

Affected configurations

• tuxfamily chrony (< 1.31.1)

References