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USN-2746-1: Simple Streams vulnerability

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USN-2746-1: Simple Streams vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/24/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/25/2015
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Simple Streams (simplestreams) does not properly verify the GPG signatures of disk image files, which allows remote mirror servers to spoof disk images and have unspecified other impact via a 403 (aka Forbidden) response.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-simplestreams
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-simplestreams-openstack
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-simplestreams
  • ubuntu-upgrade-simplestreams

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