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Oracle Linux: CVE-2015-1853: ELSA-2015-2241: chrony security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 9, 2019
Added
Oct 16, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-chrony
Title
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