CVE-2016-1252 (GCVE-0-2016-1252)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-05 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 22:48
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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