Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3031 apt - security update

   
Affected software Debian
 
The Google Security Team discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability inthe HTTP transport code in apt-get. An attacker able toman-in-the-middle a HTTP request to an apt repository can trigger thebuffer overflow, leading to a crash of the http apt method binary, orpotentially to arbitrary code execution.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3031