Bug 1109022 (CVE-2014-0478)

Summary:	CVE-2014-0478 apt: no source package authentication checks
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	Axel.Thimm
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Description Murray McAllister 2014-06-13 05:11:01 UTC

It was reported that no authentication checks were performed when obtaining source packages via "apt-get source". This could possibly lead to silent interactions with compromised source packages.

Patches:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=83;filename=apt_0.8.10.3%2Bsqueeze2.debdiff;att=1;bug=749795
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=73;filename=apt_0.9.7.9%2Bdeb7u2.debdiff;att=1;bug=749795
https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2958

There is a lot of discussion about this issue in the original report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749795

From code inspection it is not clear if Fedora is affected. Only some of the patch applies.

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2014-06-13 05:12:19 UTC

Created apt tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1109023]

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:33:31 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.