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.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3096-1 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1382369 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034808 ↗
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/141913/NTP-Privilege-Escalation.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81552 ↗
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1528050 ↗