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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