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USN-1283-1: APT vulnerability

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USN-1283-1: APT vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/28/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/28/2011
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

methods/https.cc in apt before 0.8.11 accepts connections when the certificate host name fails validation and Verify-Host is enabled, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain repository credentials via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apt

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