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Fedora 42 apt 3.1.15 Local Denial of Service Fix 2026-e0e9d0d54a

fedora
Calendar Grey March 4, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to Fedora 42 for apt 3.1.15 and python-apt. A local denial of service issue fixed for better security.
Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15 and python-apt 3.1.0, also fix a security issue in python-apt Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15

Summary

This package provides commandline tools for searching and

managing as well as querying information about packages

as a low-level access to all features of the libapt-pkg library.

These include:

* apt-get for retrieval of packages and information about them

from authenticated sources and for installation, upgrade and

removal of packages together with their dependencies

* apt-cache for querying available information about installed

as well as installable packages

* apt-cdrom to use removable media as a source for packages

* apt-config as an interface to the configuration settings

* apt-key as an interface to manage authentication keys

Update Information:

Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15 and python-apt 3.1.0, also fix a security issue in python-apt Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora APT python-apt 3.1.15

Change Log

* Mon Feb 16 2026 Terje Rosten - 3.1.15-2 - Rebuild due to so name bump * Sun Feb 15 2026 Terje Rosten - 3.1.15-1 - 3.1.15 * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.8-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jan 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.1.8-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_44_Mass_Rebuild * Mon Oct 6 2025 Terje Rosten - 3.1.8-1 - 3.1.8 - apt-key is gone - Add openssl-devel to buildreq - Fix include issue - apt-extracttemplates has moved * Wed Jul 23 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.9.27-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Feb 11 2025 Zbigniew J\u0119drzejewski-Szmek - 2.9.27-2 - Add sysusers.d config file to allow rpm to create users/groups automatically * Mon Feb 3 2025 Packit - 2.9.27-1 - Update to version 2.9.27 - Resolves: rhbz#2319327 * Thu Jan 16 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.9.8-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2319327 - apt-3.1.15 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319327 [ 2 ] Bug #2423061 - CVE-2025-6966 python-apt: python-apt: NULL pointer dereference leads to local denial of service [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423061

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-e0e9d0d54a' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: apt
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 3.1.15
Release: 2.fc42
URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt
Summary: Command-line package manager for Debian packages

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service fedora APT python-apt 3.1.15

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