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MEDIUM4.7

GHSA-rp8m-h266-53jh

python-apt Flawed Package Integrity Check

Quick fix

GHSA-rp8m-h266-53jh — python-apt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=0.8.3ubuntu7.5'

Details

python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in `Version.fetch_binary()` and `Version.fetch_source()` of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered packages and has been fixed in versions 1.9.0ubuntu1.2, 1.6.5ubuntu0.1, 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.7, 0.9.3.5ubuntu3+esm2, and 0.8.3ubuntu7.5.

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Affected packages

PyPI/python-apt
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.8.3ubuntu7.5
Fixpip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=0.8.3ubuntu7.5'
PyPI/python-apt
Introduced in: 0.9.0Fixed in: 0.9.3.5ubuntu3
Fixpip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=0.9.3.5ubuntu3'
PyPI/python-apt
Introduced in: 1.0.0Fixed in: 1.1.0
Fixpip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=1.1.0'
PyPI/python-apt
Introduced in: 1.2.0Fixed in: 1.6.5ubuntu0.1
Fixpip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=1.6.5ubuntu0.1'
PyPI/python-apt
Introduced in: 1.7.0Fixed in: 1.9.0ubuntu1.2
Fixpip install --upgrade 'python-apt>=1.9.0ubuntu1.2'

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