Insecure Key Import in Aptdaemon 0.43

CVE-2012-0962 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Aptdaemon 0.43 in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 LTS uses short IDs when importing PPA GPG keys from a keyserver, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary package repository GPG keys via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack.

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