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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 15:22:04 +0100 |
commit | 4ef9e0837ce139b398299431ae2294882f531d8e (patch) | |
tree | 8d1d1f8e657367cdbd91cca7ac8f22546ebe65cc /doc/apt-config.8.xml | |
parent | b57c5fbc0511a6d0dd99e392aa49ccd2758c4089 (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
(cherry picked from commit 51be550c5c38a2e1ddfc2af50a9fab73ccf78026)
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