USN-1352-1: Software Properties vulnerability
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
01/31/2012
07/25/2018
01/31/2012
07/09/2020
Description
ppa.py in Software Properties before 0.81.13.3 does not validate the server certificate when downloading PPA GPG key fingerprints, which allows man-in-the-middle (MITM) attackers to spoof GPG keys for a package repository.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-python-software-properties
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