software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published: 2012-08-14T00:00:00

Updated: 2020-12-02T00:50:15

Reserved: 2012-02-01T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2012-0955

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-02T01:15:11.797

Modified: 2020-12-08T02:12:04.860


Link: CVE-2012-0955

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