--- title: "CVE-2012-0214\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-0214?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2012-0214 Publication date 6 March 2012 Last updated 24 July 2024 --- Ubuntu priority **Medium** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description The pkgAcqMetaClearSig::Failed method in apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc in Advanced Package Tool (APT) 0.8.11 through 0.8.15.10 and 0.8.16 before 0.8.16~exp13, when updating from repositories that use InRelease files, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages by preventing a user from downloading the new InRelease file, which leaves the original InRelease file active and makes it more difficult to detect that the Packages file is modified and unsigned. [Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-0214?format=md#notes) ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | apt | 11.10 oneiric | Fixed 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu13.2 | | 11.04 natty | Fixed 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.4 | | 10.10 maverick | Not affected | | 10.04 LTS lucid | Not affected | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## Notes --- ### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur) only natty+ supports InRelease ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-0214) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0214) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2012-0214) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0214) ### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) + [USN-1385-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-1385-1) + APT vulnerability + 6 March 2012 ### Other references *