CVE-2012-4503

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2013-08-09
Bugzilla:
846392: CVE-2012-4502 CVE-2012-4503 chrony: Two security flaws fixed in chrony-1.29 release

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

cmdmon.c in Chrony before 1.29 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from stack memory via vectors related to (1) an invalid subnet in a RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED command to the handle_subnets_accessed function or (2) a RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES command to the handle_client_accesses function when client logging is disabled, which causes uninitialized data to be included in a reply.

Find out more about CVE-2012-4503 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 chrony Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat.

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