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Debian: DSA-3025-2 Moderate Security Advisory for Apt Fix

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2014
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This enhancement tackles the specific deployment challenge within Ubuntu, alleviating discrepancies among package sources located across various storage mounts.
The previous update for apt, DSA-3025-1, introduced a regression when file:/// sources are used and those are on a different partition than the apt state directory
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Summary

For reference, the original advisory follows.

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).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.9.7.9+deb7u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.9.1.

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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