NTP 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 enabled. The script is run as ro...

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 enabled. The script is run as ro...

RHEL 5 : ntp (RHSA-2014:2025)

Updated ntp packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available...