The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has chrony packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - Multiple integer overflows in pktlength.c in Chrony before 1.29 allow remote attackers to cause a denial     of service (crash) via a crafted (1) REQ_SUBNETS_ACCESSED or (2) REQ_CLIENT_ACCESSES command request to     the PKL_CommandLength function or crafted (3) RPY_SUBNETS_ACCESSED, (4) RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES, (5)     RPY_CLIENT_ACCESSES_BY_INDEX, or (6) RPY_MANUAL_LIST command reply to the PKL_ReplyLength function, which     triggers an out-of-bounds read or buffer overflow. NOTE: versions 1.27 and 1.28 do not require     authentication to exploit. (CVE-2012-4502)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2012-4503)

  - Chrony before 1.29.1 has traffic amplification in cmdmon protocol (CVE-2014-0021)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in chrony before 1.31.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of     service (chronyd crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by configuring the (1) NTP or (2) cmdmon access     with a subnet size that is indivisible by four and an address with a nonzero bit in the subnet remainder.
    (CVE-2015-1821)

  - chrony before 1.31.1 does not initialize the last next pointer when saving unacknowledged replies to     command requests, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized     pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a large number of command     requests. (CVE-2015-1822)

  - 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. (CVE-2015-1853)

  - chrony before 1.31.2 and 2.x before 2.2.1 do not verify peer associations of symmetric keys when     authenticating packets, which might allow remote attackers to conduct impersonation attacks via an     arbitrary trusted key, aka a skeleton key. (CVE-2016-1567)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : chrony Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2021-0127)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 154559

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Version 1.4 Feb 18, 2025, 11:54 PM Plugin metadata (CVSS 3 Change AC:H --> AC:L where needed) Plugin Feed: 202502182354
Version 1.3 Nov 27, 2023, 1:55 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") Plugin Feed: 202311271355