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CVE-2015-5196

Published: 23/10/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023

Vulnerability Summary

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: CVE-2015-7703. Reason: This candidate is a reservation duplicate of CVE-2015-7703. Notes: All CVE users should reference CVE-2015-7703 instead of this candidate. All references and descriptions in this candidate have been removed to prevent accidental usage.

Vulnerability Trend

Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: ntp security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score ...
Several security issues were fixed in NTP ...
It was found that NTP's :config command could be used to set the pidfile and driftfile paths without any restrictions A remote attacker could use this flaw to overwrite a file on the file system with a file containing the pid of the ntpd process (immediately) or the current estimated drift of the system clock (in hourly intervals) ...