Debian Security Advisory - DSA-3025-1 apt - security update

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Debian has announced a security advisory about its apt-get software, and recommends that you upgrade your apt packages ... with apt, of course.
"It was discovered that APT, the high level package manager, does not properly invalidate unauthenticated data (CVE-2014-0488), performs incorrect verification of 304 replies (CVE-2014-0487), does not perform the checksum check when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is used (CVE-2014-0489) and does not properly perform validation for binary packages downloaded by the apt-get download command (CVE-2014-0490)."
This update comes to you courtesy of the IOERROR Twitter account.

Re: Some glaring security holes? (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-09-21 11:55 (#2SPS)

I disable password authentication entirely in favor of SSH keys. I believe that this is now the default in Ubuntu (since Trusty.) From the Ubuntu wiki:
To be as hard to guess as a normal SSH key, a password would have to contain 634 random letters and numbers.
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