The apt package in Debian jessie before 1.0.9.8.4, in Debian unstable before 1.4~beta2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 1.0.1ubuntu2.17, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 1.2.15ubuntu0.2, and in Ubuntu 16.10 before 1.3.2ubuntu0.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a repository-signing protection mechanism by leveraging improper error handling when validating InRelease file signatures.
References
Link Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.html Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3156-1 Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647467 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40916/ Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2017-12-05T16:00:00

Updated: 2017-12-05T15:57:01

Reserved: 2015-12-27T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2016-1252

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-05T16:29:00.203

Modified: 2020-08-14T15:26:29.877


Link: CVE-2016-1252

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