Article 47HSV Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks

Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks

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The Debian Project has patched a security flaw in its software manager Apt that can be exploited by network snoops to execute commands as root on victims' boxes as they update or install packages."

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