CVE-2010-0292: Tuxfamily Chrony

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The read_from_cmd_socket function in cmdmon.c in chronyd in Chrony before 1.23.1, and 1.24-pre1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) by sending a spoofed cmdmon packet that triggers a continuous exchange of NOHOSTACCESS messages between two daemons, a related issue to CVE-2009-3563.

Affected products

• Tuxfamily Chrony: up to and including 1.23-pre1; version 1.18 only; version 1.19 only; version 1.19-1 only; version 1.19.99.1 only; version 1.19.99.2 only; …

Published 2010-02-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.