Bug 1382369 (CVE-2016-0727) - CVE-2016-0727 ntp: Privilege escalation via cronjob
Summary: CVE-2016-0727 ntp: Privilege escalation via cronjob
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-0727
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1382370
Blocks: 1382371
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Reported: 2016-10-06 13:34 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-07 07:31:17 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 13:34:48 UTC 
Multiple bugs in cronjob script bundled with ntp package were found allowing malicious ntp user to make the backup process to overwrite arbitrary files with content controlled by the attacker, thus gaining root privileges.

External References:

http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/NtpCronjobUserNtpToRootPrivilegeEscalation/
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-06 13:35:11 UTC 
Created ntp tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1382370]
Comment 4 Dhiru Kholia 2016-10-07 07:31:17 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of ntp as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, or 7.
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