Ubuntu Security Notice 4359-2 - USN-4359-1 fixed a vulnerability in APT. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM. It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially crafted package to be installed by the system administrator, this could cause APT to crash. Various other issues were also addressed.
d2237b38c62fa2201ddc711ec23e9be63e8076e5ad1bd20e78441a7d9b9bc406Debian Linux Security Advisory 4685-1 - Shuaibing Lu discovered that missing input validation in the ar/tar implementations of APT, the high level package manager, could result in denial of service when processing specially crafted deb files.
d11a1baf9490082af927a3e0c3aa42218a73c54fe7796464fc703c7e99185b0fUbuntu Security Notice 4359-1 - It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially crafted package to be installed by the system administrator, this could cause APT to crash.
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