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ntp: uses wrong gid

Package(s):ntp CVE #(s):CAN-2005-2496
Created:August 26, 2005 Updated:August 11, 2006
Description: When starting xntpd with the -u option and specifying the group by using a string not a numeric gid the daemon uses the gid of the user not the group. This problem is now fixed by this update.
Alerts:
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0393-01 2006-08-10
Mandriva MDKSA-2005:156 2005-09-06
Debian DSA-801-1 2005-09-05
Ubuntu USN-175-1 2005-09-01
Fedora FEDORA-2005-812 2005-08-26
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