debian · CVE-2005-2496

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Priority: medium Published: Updated: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:19:14 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-2496 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (ntp), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): resolved 1.

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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