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CVE 2015-1330

unattended-upgrades before 0.86.1 does not properly authenticate packages when the (1) force-confold or (2) force-confnew dpkg options are enabled in the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration, which allows remote man-in-the-middle attackers to upload and execute arbitrary packages via unspecified vectors.

Related bugs and status

CVE-2015-1330 (Candidate) is related to these bugs:

Bug #1466380: No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf

		In	Importance	Status
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu)	Critical	Fix Released
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Vivid)	Undecided	Fix Released
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Trusty)	Undecided	Fix Released
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Wily)	Critical	Fix Released
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Precise)	Undecided	Fix Released
1466380	No authentication check if DPkg::Options::", "--force-confold" is set in apt conf	unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu Utopic)	Undecided	Fix Released

See the

CVE page on Mitre.org for more details.

References

CONFIRM: http://metadata.ftp-ma...
DEBIAN: DSA-3297
UBUNTU: USN-2657-1
SECTRACK: 1032738