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CVE-2016-0727

Published: Apr 14, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The crontab script in the ntp package before 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3.11 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, before 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.10 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, on Ubuntu Wily, and before 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS allows local users with access to the ntp account to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving statistics directory cleanup.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html

x_refsource_MISC

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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