1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2746-1

USN-2746-1: Simple Streams vulnerability

Publication date

24 September 2015

Overview

Applications using Simple Streams could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

  • simplestreams - Library and tools for using Simple Streams data

Details

It was discovered that Simple Streams did not properly perform gpg
verification in some situations. A remote attacker could use this to
perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and inject malicious content into
the stream.

It was discovered that Simple Streams did not properly perform gpg
verification in some situations. A remote attacker could use this to
perform a machine-in-the-middle attack and inject malicious content into
the stream.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart any services that make use of python-simplestreams or python3-simplestreams to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
15.04 vivid python-simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr354-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
python-simplestreams-openstack –  0.1.0~bzr354-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
python3-simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr354-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr354-0ubuntu1.15.04.1
14.04 trusty python-simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr341-0ubuntu2.2
python-simplestreams-openstack –  0.1.0~bzr341-0ubuntu2.2
python3-simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr341-0ubuntu2.2
simplestreams –  0.1.0~bzr341-0ubuntu2.2

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