CVE-2005-2496

MediumCVSS 4.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected software

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References

Timeline

Published: Sep 2, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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