USN-9000-1: Twisted vulnerability
USN-9000-1
Summary
Max Justicz discovered that APT incorrectly handled hard links when encountering redirects and retrying package downloads. A remote on-path attacker could possibly use this issue to trick APT into installing an unverified package and achieve remote code execution with root privileges.
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