# CVE-2012-4503: cmdmon.c in Chrony before 1.29 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from stack memory via vectors related to

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2013-11-05 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.chrony.announce/15
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2760
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/332
- http://git.tuxfamily.org/chrony/chrony.git/?p=chrony/chrony.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=c6fdeeb6bb0b17dc28c19ae492c4a1c498e54ea3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846392

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