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Debian's APT Affected By Man-In-The-Middle Attack For Arbitrary Code Execution As Root

A new vulnerability was disclosed today affecting Debian's APT package manager where a man-in-the-middle attacker could carry out arbitrary code execution as root...

We haven't written up this one. Phoronix has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Also reported by 1 other outlet

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