vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3156-1 (CVE-2016-1252): APT vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Dec 13, 2016
Added
Dec 13, 2016
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

Jann Horn discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files.
If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this
flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-apt
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