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CVE-2005-2496

CVE-2005-2496

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://secunia.com/advisories/16602http://secunia.com/advisories/21464http://securitytracker.com/id?1016679https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22035https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9669http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-801http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:156http://www.osvdb.org/19055http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0393.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14673http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=55155http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1561