CVE-2005-2496

MEDIUM 4.6CVE-2005-2496 · Published 02/09/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-2496 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.6) vulnerability affecting ntpd (dave mills).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.45%, higher than 38.7% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ntpd dave_mills	`≤ 4.2.0.a.2004-06-17_4.fc3`	No fix yet

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.

References

secunia.com/advisories/16602 · Vendor Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/21464
securitytracker.com/id
debian.org/security/2005/dsa-801
mandriva.com/security/advisories
osvdb.org/19055
redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0393.html
securityfocus.com/bid/14673
securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html · Vendor Advisory
vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1561
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22035
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9669

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