USN-1284-2: Update Manager regression

16 February 2012

USN-1284-1 introduced a regression in Update Manager.

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USN-1284-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Update Manager. One of the fixes
introduced a regression for Kubuntu users attempting to upgrade to a newer
Ubuntu release. This update fixes the problem.

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Original advisory details:

David Black discovered that Update Manager incorrectly extracted the
downloaded upgrade tarball before verifying its GPG signature. If a remote
attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could
potentially be used to replace arbitrary files. (CVE-2011-3152)

David Black discovered that Update Manager created a temporary directory
in an insecure fashion. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to
read the XAUTHORITY file of the user performing the upgrade.
(CVE-2011-3154)

This update also adds a hotfix to Update Notifier to handle cases where the
upgrade is being performed from CD media.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 11.10
Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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