{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security@debian.org", "ID": "CVE-2012-0214", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The pkgAcqMetaClearSig::Failed method in apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc in Advanced Package Tool (APT) 0.8.11 through 0.8.15.10 and 0.8.16 before 0.8.16~exp13, when updating from repositories that use InRelease files, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages by preventing a user from downloading the new InRelease file, which leaves the original InRelease file active and makes it more difficult to detect that the Packages file is modified and unsigned." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7a6594d1e5ed199a7a472b78b33e070375d6f92", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7a6594d1e5ed199a7a472b78b33e070375d6f92" }, { "name": "USN-1385-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1385-1" }, { "name": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=de498a528cd6fc36c4bb22bf8dec6558e21cc9b6", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git;a=commitdiff;h=de498a528cd6fc36c4bb22bf8dec6558e21cc9b6" } ] } }