CVE-2016-0727

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 14, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 16, 2015

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

USN-3096-1vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369
1034808vdb-entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html
81552vdb-entry
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050

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