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(CVE-2014-0487)\n\nIt was discovered that APT did not invalidate repository data when it\nswitched from an unauthenticated to an authenticated state. (CVE-2014-0488)\n\nIt was discovered that the APT Acquire::GzipIndexes option caused APT to\nskip checksum validation. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and\nUbuntu 14.04 LTS, and was not enabled by default. (CVE-2014-0489)\n\nIt was discovered that APT did not correctly validate signatures when\nmanually downloading packages using the download command. This issue only\napplied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0490)\n","status":"published","published":"2014-09-16T16:20:05Z","modified":"2026-04-22T09:00:05.334473Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:09.227524Z"}]}}