Description
Incorrect sanitation of the 302 redirect field in HTTP transport method of apt versions 1.4.8 and earlier can lead to content injection by a MITM attacker, potentially leading to remote code execution on the target machine.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Debian GNU/Linux apt as used in Debian Stretch and Ubuntu
1.4.8 and earlieraffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106690 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3863-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3863-2/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00013.html ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4371 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00014.html ↗
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190125-0002/ ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8338a0f605bdbb3a6098bb76f666a95fc2b2f53f37fa1ecc89f1146f%40%3Cdevnull.infra.apache.org%3E ↗