CVE-2014-0478 (GCVE-0-2014-0478)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-06-17 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 09:20
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
APT before 1.0.4 does not properly validate source packages, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to download and install Trojan horse packages by removing the Release signature.
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