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 ).

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 0.9.7.9+deb7u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.0.9. We recommend that you upgrade your apt packages.

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.

apt on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3025.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25