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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-01 Advisory: NTP Signature Verification Bypass

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Calendar Grey April 5, 2009
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An anomaly in certificate verification with ntp on Gentoo introduces risks of data spoofing. Update ntp promptly to enhance security measures.
An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation in ntp might allow for spoofing attacks.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ntp: Certificate validation error Date: April 05, 2009 Bugs: #254098 ID: 200904-05

Synopsis ======= An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation in ntp might allow for spoofing attacks.
Background ========= ntp contains the client and daemon implementations for the Network Time Protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/ntp < 4.2.4_p6 >= 4.2.4_p6
========== It has been reported that ntp incorrectly checks the return value of the EVP_VerifyFinal(), a vulnerability related to CVE-2008-5077 (GLSA 200902-02).
Impact ===== A remote...

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