Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : ntp vulnerability (USN-705-1)

It was discovered that NTP did not properly perform signature verification. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass certificate validation via a malformed SSL/TLS signature. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security...

Ubuntu USN-705-1 (ntp)

The remote host is missing an update to ntp announced via advisory USN-705-1. It was discovered that NTP did not properly perform signature verification. A remote attacker could exploit this to bypass certificate validation via a malformed SSL/TLS signature. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...