ubuntu · CVE-2012-0955

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Priority: medium Published: 2020-12-02 01:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 20:26:25 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-0955 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (software-properties), 5 status rows across 5 suites (lucid, precise, quantal, raring, upstream): not-affected 3, ignored 1, released 1.

Description:

software-properties was vulnerable to a person-in-the-middle attack due to incorrect TLS certificate validation in softwareproperties/ppa.py. software-properties didn't check TLS certificates under python2 and only checked certificates under python3 if a valid certificate bundle was provided. Fixed in software-properties version 0.92.

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