Bug 1209632 (CVE-2015-1822) - CVE-2015-1822 chrony: uninitialized pointer in cmdmon reply slots
Summary: CVE-2015-1822 chrony: uninitialized pointer in cmdmon reply slots
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-1822
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1209633 1209634 Engineering1221579
Blocks: Embargoed1200382 Embargoed1210268
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Reported: 2015-04-07 20:45 UTC by Kurt Seifried
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:01 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found when allocating memory to save unacknowledged replies to authenticated command requests. An attacker that has the command key and is allowed to access cmdmon (only localhost is allowed by default) could use this flaw to crash chronyd or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the chronyd process.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-20 05:27:34 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2241 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: chrony security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-11-19 08:59:36 UTC

Description Kurt Seifried 2015-04-07 20:45:57 UTC 
Miroslav Lichvar of Red Hat reports:

The last pointer in the list of allocated reply slots that are used to
save authenticated cmdmon replies is not initialized.

This one was actually found couple months ago and it's already fixed
in git, but only recently I realized it could have security
implications.

An authenticated attacker can allocate and deallocate memory with
other commands (e.g. allow/deny) and can force allocation of new reply
slots by making new requests and not acknowledging previous replies,
and then let chronyd write a reply to an invalid memory.
Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2015-04-07 20:47:24 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Miroslav Lichvár of Red Hat.
Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2015-04-07 20:49:26 UTC 
Created chrony tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1209633]
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2015-04-07 20:51:43 UTC 
Created chrony tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1209634]
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2015-04-08 15:59:21 UTC 
This issue was fixed upstream:

http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/News.html

The updated version is available at: 

http://download.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony-1.31.1.tar.gz
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2015-04-22 22:43:04 UTC 
chrony-2.0-0.3.pre2.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-04-22 22:53:49 UTC 
chrony-1.31.1-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-04-23 19:00:46 UTC 
chrony-1.31.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2015-04-23 19:02:42 UTC 
chrony-1.31.1-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2015-04-24 22:50:03 UTC 
chrony-1.31.1-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 08:30:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2241 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2241.html
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