Gentoo: GLSA-202310-01 Advisory: NTP Signature Verification Bypass
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April 5, 2009
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
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An error in the OpenSSL certificate chain validation in ntp might allow
for spoofing attacks.
Background
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ntp contains the client and daemon implementations for the Network Time
Protocol.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/ntp < 4.2.4_p6 >= 4.2.4_p6
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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
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A remote...
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