full-disclosure - Re: Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?

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Message-ID: <20120615134255.GD2438@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:42:55 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: "Thor (Hammer of God)" <thor@...merofgod.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Using second gpg keyring may be misleading?

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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