UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0818

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-0818

    Published: 12 Mar 2016Last Modified: 8 Sept 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-0818

    Summary:

    Details: The caching functionality in the TrustManagerImpl class in TrustManagerImpl.java in Conscrypt in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY49H, and 6.x before 2016-03-01 mishandles the distinction between an intermediate CA and a trusted root CA, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging access to an intermediate CA to issue a certificate, aka internal bug 26232830.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0818, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-03-01.html, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0818

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: android

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/android@20160307-0742-0ubuntu3?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -20160307-0742-0ubuntu3

    Affected versions

    20150818-1500-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High