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USN-2657-1: unattended-upgrades vulnerability

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USN-2657-1: unattended-upgrades vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/01/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/02/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-unattended-upgrades

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