A flaw in APT affects Debian and Ubuntu package downloads when an attacker can alter traffic between the package manager and the package server. The issue lets a checked package be replaced during a retry, and the attacker’s code can run as root. Advisories from Debian, Ubuntu, and APT’s developers were published on November 4. APT retries failed downloads by default from Debian 12 and Ubuntu 22.04 onward, which creates…
Debian has just released a major kernel security update that aggregates fixes for 1,313 CVE entries, a headline figure that has drawn attention across the Linux community. The update — published as DSA-6528-1 and delivered for the Trixie stable release as Linux source package 6.12.111-1 — addresses a range of vulnerabilities that could, in different contexts, lead to privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks. While the scale of…
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