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Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 : apt vulnerability (USN-1385-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58266

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Simon Ruderich discovered that APT incorrectly handled repositories that use InRelease files. The default Ubuntu repositories do not use InRelease files, so this issue only affected third-party repositories.
If a remote attacker were able to perform a man-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected apt package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1385-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58266

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1385-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:apt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/15/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0214

USN: 1385-1