Bug 1282383

Summary:	octave: insecure downloading of packages
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	alex, orion, ovasik, rakesh.pandit, susi.lehtola
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Bug Depends On:	1282384, 1282385
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-11-16 09:38:40 UTC

It was reported that Octave's package manager downloads packages over HTTP and from an unreliable source. The full report is available at:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565410

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-11-16 09:39:10 UTC

Created octave tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1282384]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1282385]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:45:29 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.