Affects:
- Ntp 4.2.4p4 and prior [Medium]
Description
NTP 4.2.4 before 4.2.4p5 and 4.2.5 before 4.2.5p150 does not properly check the return value from the OpenSSL EVP_VerifyFinal function, which allows remote attackers to bypass validation of the certificate chain via a malformed SSL/TLS signature for DSA and ECDSA keys, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2008-5077.
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CVE Identifier: CVE-2009-0021
Severity: Medium
NIST National Vulnerabilities Database
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