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Critical DoS Vulnerability in python-apt Affects Multiple Ubuntu Releases

Critical DoS Vulnerability in python-apt Affects Multiple Ubuntu Releases

First seen 9 Dec 2025, 20:43 UTC • •

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

A critical denial of service vulnerability has been identified in python-apt, affecting multiple Ubuntu versions including 25.10, 25.04, and several LTS releases. Discovered by Julian Andres Klode, the flaw allows attackers to crash python-apt by exploiting improperly handled deb822 configuration files.

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