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Debian: DLA-1637-1 Critical: APT HTTP Transport Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2019
Dist Debian Esm H88
The latest APT package revision resolves a critical vulnerability, preventing potential man-in-the-middle attacks. Updating is advised to safeguard against possible threats.
(amended to refer to jessie in the sources.list entry below, instead of stable) Max Justicz discovered a vulnerability in APT, the high level package manager

Summary

Since the vulnerability is present in the package manager itself, it is
recommended to disable redirects in order to prevent exploitation during this
upgrade only, using:

apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false update
apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false upgrade

This is known to break some proxies when used against security.debian.org. If
that happens, people can switch their security APT source to use:

deb jessie/updates main

For Debian 8 "Jessie", this problem has been fixed in version
1.0.9.8.5.

We recommend that you upgrade your apt packages.

Specific upgrade instructions:

If upgrading using APT without redirect is not possible in your situation, you
can manually download the files (using wget/curl) for your architecture using
the URL provided below, verifying that the hashes match. Then you can install
them using dpkg -i.

Architecture independent files:

Size/SHA256 checksum: 301106 47df9567e45fadcd2a56c0fd3d514d8136f2f206aa7baa47405c6fcb94824ab6

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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.8.5
CVE ID: CVE-2019-3462
Debian Bug:

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