NTP Cronjob Script Local Privilege Vulnerability

The NTP Cronjob Script is a task script used to perform a purge operation on the statistics file generated by the NTP daemon running the statistics function. A security vulnerability exists in NTP Cronjob Script that can be exploited by attackers to gain root privileges and perform unauthorized...

NTP - Local Privilege Escalation

NTP - Local Privilege Escalation Source: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/2015/NtpCronjobUserNtpToRootPrivilegeEscalation/ Introduction Problem description: The cronjob script bundled with ntp package is intended to perform cleanup on statistics files produced by NTP daemon running with statistics...