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Fedora Core 3 : ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-5.FC3 (2005-812)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 19720

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

When starting xntpd with the -u option and specifying the group by using a string not a numeric gid the daemon uses the gid of the user not the group. This problem is now fixed by this update.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CVE-2005-2496 to this issue.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ntp and / or ntp-debuginfo packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b373722c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 19720

File Name: fedora_2005-812.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ntp-debuginfo, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2496

FEDORA: 2005-812