Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-09:03.ntpd.asc
Solution
Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release or security branch dated after the correction date
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-09:03.ntpd.asc
Insight
The ntpd daemon is an implementation of the Network Time Protocol (NTP) used to synchronize the time of a computer system to a reference time source.
FreeBSD includes software from the OpenSSL Project. The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
The EVP_VerifyFinal() function from OpenSSL is used to determine if a digital signature is valid. When ntpd(8) is set to cryptographically authenticate NTP data it incorrectly checks the return value from EVP_VerifyFinal().
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0021 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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