Vigil@nce - apt: denial of service via a deb package
May 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
– Impacted products: Debian, Ubuntu.
– Severity: 1/4.
– Consequences: denial of service on service.
– Provenance: document.
– Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
– Creation date: 14/05/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error in apt via a deb file
package, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/apt-denial-of-service-via-a-deb-package-32263