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Debian Security Advisory - DSA-3025-1 apt - Security Update

posted by LaminatorX on Friday September 19 2014, @08:48AM   
from the apt-to-fail dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

"We recommend that you upgrade your apt packages." with apt of course... (via https://twitter.com/ioerror)

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3025

"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)."

• To keep from using apt-get to update apt... To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 4, Informative) by _NSAKEY on Friday September 19 2014, @08:58AM

  by _NSAKEY (16) on Friday September 19 2014, @08:58AM (#95399)

  wget the .debs for both apt [debian.org] and apt-utils [debian.org]. Install with dpkg -i. Done.

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• Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 3, Interesting) by mtrycz on Friday September 19 2014, @09:13AM

  by mtrycz (60) on Friday September 19 2014, @09:13AM (#95403)

  I might not be getting it: is there a clear reason not to update it with apt?

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  • Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 3, Informative) by _NSAKEY on Friday September 19 2014, @09:22AM

    by _NSAKEY (16) on Friday September 19 2014, @09:22AM (#95406)

    Aside from avoiding the irony of updating apt by using apt? Not unless you're really paranoid.

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    • Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 3, Insightful) by mth on Friday September 19 2014, @09:41AM

      by mth (2848) on Friday September 19 2014, @09:41AM (#95409) Homepage

      Bypassing apt altogether skips all security checks, so that would be a lot less safe than apt skipping some of the checks in particular situations.

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      • Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 3, Informative) by q.kontinuum on Friday September 19 2014, @12:43PM

        by q.kontinuum (532) on Friday September 19 2014, @12:43PM (#95455) Journal

        I'd expepct you can download a signed .deb and check the signature manually, which might make it safer.

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        • Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: 2) by _NSAKEY on Friday September 19 2014, @04:59PM

          by _NSAKEY (16) on Friday September 19 2014, @04:59PM (#95559)

          The steps for doing that can be found here [debian.org]

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      Re:To keep from using apt-get to update apt... (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @11:29AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 19 2014, @11:29AM (#95433)

      Not unless you're really paranoid.

      What solutions exists for beyond really paranoids? Like, for those imaginarilly paranoids? Or quaternionly paranoids?

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