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CVE-2005-2496

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-09-02 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Dave Mills Ntpd: through 4.2.0.a.2004-06-17_4.fc3

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/16602
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21464
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016679
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-801
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:156
• http://www.osvdb.org/19055
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0393.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14673
• http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=55155
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1561
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22035
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9669

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