USN-2353-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6273)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-09-23 16:12 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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Summary
apt vulnerability
Details

It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain http URLs. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could be exploited to cause APT to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service. (CVE-2014-6273)

In addition, this update fixes regressions introduced by the USN-2348-1 security update: APT incorrectly handled file:/// sources on a different partition, incorrectly handled Dir::state::lists set to a relative path, and incorrectly handled cdrom: sources.

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  "id": "USN-2353-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
  "published": "2014-09-23T16:12:19Z",
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