Vigil@nce - apt: Man-in-the-Middle
March 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Debian, Ubuntu.
– Severity: 2/4.
– Consequences: data reading, data creation/edition.
– Provenance: internet server.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 22/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can act as a Man-in-the-Middle on apt, in order to
read or write data in the session, so a malicious package is
installed.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/apt-Man-in-the-Middle-28323