cve-2016-20021
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-12 00:00
Modified
2024-08-06 03:47
Severity ?
Summary
In Gentoo Portage before 3.0.47, there is missing PGP validation of executed code: the standalone emerge-webrsync downloads a .gpgsig file but does not perform signature verification. Unless emerge-webrsync is used, Portage is not vulnerable.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.gentoo.org/597800Issue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/NEWSRelease Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PortageProduct
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