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TITLE:
reprepro Improper Signature Verification Security Bypass

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26678

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26678/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:

http://secunia.com/product//
reprepro 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/15564/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in reprepro, which can be exploited
by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper verification of
signatures when updating repositories. This can be exploited to trick
reprepro into accepting packages signed with an unknown key.   

The vulnerability is reported in reprepro versions from 1.3.0 to
2.2.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to reprepro version 2.2.4.
http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30039

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://alioth.debian.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1031

OTHER REFERENCES:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440535

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