CVE-2005-2496

EPSS 0.09%

ntp - programming error

Published: 9/2/2005Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2496

Description

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 packages (2)

Debian/ntpfrom 0, < 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1
Debian/ntpfrom 0, < 1:4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-2496