{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security@debian.org", "ID": "CVE-2016-1252", "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 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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "DSA-3733", "refsource": "DEBIAN", "url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733" }, { "name": "USN-3156-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3156-1" }, { "name": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.html", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140145/apt-Repository-Signing-Bypass.html" }, { "name": "40916", "refsource": "EXPLOIT-DB", "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40916/" }, { "name": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647467", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1647467" }, { "name": "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1020" } ] } }