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USN-1666-1: Aptdaemon vulnerability

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USN-1666-1: Aptdaemon vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/26/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Aptdaemon 0.43 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 LTS uses short IDs when importing PPA GPG keys from a keyserver, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary package repository GPG keys via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-aptdaemon

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