CVE-2005-2496

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2005-08-25
Bugzilla:
1617728: CVE-2005-2496 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The xntpd ntp (ntpd) daemon before 4.2.0b, when run with the -u option and using a string to specify the group, uses the group ID of the user instead of the group, which causes xntpd to run with different privileges than intended.

Find out more about CVE-2005-2496 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (ntp) RHSA-2006:0393 2006-08-10

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