Debian Security Advisory

DLA-58-3 apt -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
28 Oct 2014
Affected Packages:
apt
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 710924.
More information:

The recent security updates to apt make apt bug #710924 [1] much easier to trigger. Affected users see 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable errors during a apt-get update operation. With the 0.8.10.3+squeeze7 upload the fix for this error that was originally introduced in version 0.9.12 [2] is now backported.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugq0924
[2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id31e8396ee5a4f2e7d276eddc54749b2a13dd789

For Debian 6 Squeeze, these issues have been fixed in apt version 0.8.10.3+squeeze7