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 zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-27 20:39 (#2SZN)

Hmm, that's useful to know. I'll still have to think about it since I connect to the machine from 3 or 4 desktops over the course of a week (desktop, laptop, work machine, etc.). I'll look into it, because this bullshit is making me tired.

Sure wish there were a legal framework that allowed you to electrocute script kiddies and 'net douchebags.
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