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Fedora 43 apt 3.1.15 Important Local DoS Advisory 2026-1c47e433df

fedora
Calendar Grey March 4, 2026
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Update to apt 3.1.15 on Fedora 43 addresses important issues and build problems. Immediate installation recommended.
Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15 and python-apt 3.1.0 Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15, also fix build problem with previous release

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 Update to latest upstream release apt 3.1.15, also fix build problem with previous release

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important local denial of service APT

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 #2149769 - python-apt-3.1.0 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2149769 [ 2 ] Bug #2319327 - apt-3.1.15 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319327 [ 3 ] Bug #2339898 - apt-2.9.8-1.fc43 FTBFS: apt-2.9.8/apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc:597:7: error: \u2018uint8_t\u2019 was not declared in this scope https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2339898 [ 4 ] Bug #2384459 - apt: FTBFS in Fedora rawhide/f43 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2384459 [ 5 ] Bug #2423062 - CVE-2025-6966 python-apt: python-apt: NULL pointer dereference leads to local denial of service [fedora-43] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423062

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-1c47e433df' 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 43
Version: 3.1.15
Release: 2.fc43
URL: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt
Summary: Command-line package manager for Debian packages

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora update important local denial of service APT

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