CVE-2016-1252

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 5, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 27, 2015

Description

The apt package in Debian jessie before 1.0.9.8.4, in Debian unstable before 1.4~beta2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 1.0.1ubuntu2.17, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 1.2.15ubuntu0.2, and in Ubuntu 16.10 before 1.3.2ubuntu0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a repository-signing protection mechanism by leveraging improper error handling when validating InRelease file signatures.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

DSA-3733vendor-advisory
USN-3156-1vendor-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.html
40916exploit
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647467
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020

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