A flaw was found in how NTP checked the return value of signature
verification. A remote attacker could use this to bypass certificate
validation by using a malformed SSL/TLS signature (CVE-2009-0021).
The updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-0021
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