CVE-2016-1252

Published: 13 December 2016

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.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 5.9

Status

Package	Release	Status
apt Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Not vulnerable (InRelease file splitting code is not present)
	trusty	Released (1.0.1ubuntu2.17)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (1.2.15ubuntu0.2)
	yakkety	Released (1.3.2ubuntu0.1)
	zesty	Released (1.4~beta2)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1252
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3156-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Bugs

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1647467

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