Package : apt
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : local/remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2009-1300 CVE-2009-1358
Debian Bug : 523213 433091
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in APT, the well-known dpkg
frontend. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following problems:
CVE-2009-1300
In time zones where daylight savings time occurs at midnight,
the apt cron.daily script fails, stopping new security updates
from being applied automatically.
CVE-2009-1358
A repository that has been signed with an expired or revoked
OpenPGP key would still be considered valid by APT.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.46.4-0.1+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.7.20.2+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.7.21.
We recommend that you upgrade your apt package.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
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