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Re: [Full-disclosure] Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?
- To: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?
- From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:42:55 +0300
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 05:52:26PM +0000, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> What are you considering exploitable? The untrusted/unverified "Master" key?
>
ubuntu fixed this out of paranoia:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-June/001721.html
>While it appears that a man-in-the-middle attacker cannot
>exploit this, as a hardening measure this update adjusts apt-key to
>validate all subkeys when checking for key collisions.
i would suppose this was exploitable while it was alive.
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