{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:27Z",
  "published": "2014-04-15T23:55:08Z",
  "id": "CVE-2012-0214",
  "details": "The pkgAcqMetaClearSig::Failed method in apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc in Advanced Package Tool (APT) 0.8.11 through 0.8.15.10 and 0.8.16 before 0.8.16~exp13, when updating from repositories that use InRelease files, allows man-in-the-middle attackers to install arbitrary packages by preventing a user from downloading the new InRelease file, which leaves the original InRelease file active and makes it more difficult to detect that the Packages file is modified and unsigned.",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1385-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b7a6594d1e5ed199a7a472b78b33e070375d6f92"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt/apt.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=de498a528cd6fc36c4bb22bf8dec6558e21cc9b6"
    }
  ]
}