Vulnerability in Sebastian Heinlein Aptdaemon
CVE-2012-0962
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.
EPSS: 0.018 (76.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Sebastian_heinlein Aptdaemon — versions 0.43
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 11.10, 12.04
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@ubuntu.com (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Patch)
- security@ubuntu.com (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@ubuntu.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)