Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2015-1853
CVE-2015-1853
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.
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References
2- chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-01nvdThird Party Advisory
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