Privilege Escalation in xntpd ntp Daemon

CVE-2005-2496 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

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