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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2012-0955

software-properties incorrectly validated TLS certificates

Description

software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Canonical software-properties

  • 0.92 to < 0.92affected

References