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.

Project Subscriptions

Vendors Products
Canonical Subscribe
Ubuntu Linux Subscribe
Advanced Package Tool Subscribe
Debian Linux Subscribe
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3733-1 apt security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2351 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3156-1 APT vulnerability
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:48:13.650Z

Reserved: 2015-12-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-1252

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

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

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-1252

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses