Dell Latitude 2110 vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10

Packages

• base-files - Debian base system files

Details

It was discovered that the Ubuntu image shipped on some Dell Latitude
2110 systems was accidentally configured to allow unauthenticated package
installations. A remote attacker intercepting network communications or
a malicious archive mirror server could exploit this to trick the user
into installing unsigned packages, resulting in arbitrary code execution
with root privileges.