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author | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2016-12-05 23:01:25 +0100 |
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committer | Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> | 2016-12-08 15:19:21 +0100 |
commit | 51be550c5c38a2e1ddfc2af50a9fab73ccf78026 (patch) | |
tree | 08d21bb6de79a20b1355c69d04bd1eb1f7cf91dc /apt-pkg/acquire-item.h | |
parent | 6761dae5d0c372d132b0df91753120b59e30fd0e (diff) |
SECURITY UPDATE: gpgv: Check for errors when splitting files (CVE-2016-1252)
This fixes a security issue where signatures of the
InRelease files could be circumvented in a man-in-the-middle
attack, giving attackers the ability to serve any packages
they want to a system, in turn giving them root access.
It turns out that getline() may not only return EINVAL
as stated in the documentation - it might also return
in case of an error when allocating memory.
This fix not only adds a check that reading worked
correctly, it also implicitly checks that all writes
worked by reporting any other error that occurred inside
the loop and was logged by apt.
Affected: >= 0.9.8
Reported-By: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Thanks: Jann Horn, Google Project Zero for reporting the issue
LP: #1647467
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