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Debian Wheezy: DSA-3025-1 Critical: Apt Authentication Issues

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Calendar Grey September 16, 2014
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In September 2014, Debian issued DSA-3025-1 to address authentication vulnerabilities and verification flaws, vital for maintaining security in Debian-based systems
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-2...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.9.7.9+deb7u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.0.9.

We recommend that you upgrade your apt packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: apt
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0487 CVE-2014-0488 CVE-2014-0489 CVE-2014-0490

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