CVE - CVE-2015-1853

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-1853	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way chrony hosts that were peering with each other authenticated themselves before updating their internal state variables. An attacker could send packets to one peer host, which could cascade to other peers, and stop the synchronization process among the reached peers.
References
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MISC:RHBZ#1209572 URL:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209572 MISC:RHSA-2015:2241 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2241 MISC:http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html URL:http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html MISC:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1853 URL:https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1853 MISC:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-01 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-01
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20150217	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150217)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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