Bug 1617728 (CVE-2005-2496) - CVE-2005-2496 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-2496 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-2496
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:31 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:31:21 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:31:15 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:25:57 UTC 
MITRE 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.
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