CVE-2012-3587

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions APT versions 0.7.x through 0.7.24 APT versions 0.8.x through 0.8.15

Description The issue allows remote attackers to install Trojan horse packages via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack, due to reliance on GnuPG argument order and lack of checks for GPG subkeys when using the apt-key net-update to import keyrings.

Recommendations For APT versions 0.7.x through 0.7.24, update to version 0.7.25 or later. For APT versions 0.8.x through 0.8.15, update to version 0.8.16 or later.