Hmm that's pretty bad then (which is not to be read as blaming you or anyone else here).
Are there going to be any… "consequences"? I mean trying to find out whether systems have been compromised is probably impossible... an attacker could have used this long ago to basically do everything, from silently taking over end user systems to secretly injecting code in development repos. Sure one can argue that this might have been noticed - but it also might have been not. But is there a chance to e.g. get full audits of apt done by security experts? I'd assume that aptitude was also fully affected by this, right? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812353 Title: content injection in http method (CVE-2019-3462) Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Precise: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Trusty: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Xenial: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Bionic: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Disco: Fix Released Bug description: apt, starting with version 0.8.15, decodes target URLs of redirects, but does not check them for newlines, allowing MiTM attackers (or repository mirrors) to inject arbitrary headers into the result returned to the main process. If the URL embeds hashes of the supposed file, it can thus be used to disable any validation of the downloaded file, as the fake hashes will be prepended in front of the right hashes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1812353/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
