Fedora 42 and 43 apt 3.1.15 Local Denial of Service Fixes Released

Fedora 42 and 43 apt 3.1.15 Local Denial of Service Fixes Released

First seen 4 Mar 2026, 10:08 UTC Linuxsecurity 30.9

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Fedora has released fixes for a local denial of service vulnerability affecting apt 3.1.15 in both Fedora 42 and Fedora 43. The vulnerability allows for potential disruption of services through the command line tools provided by the libapt-pkg library. Users of these Fedora versions are advised to update their systems to mitigate this risk.

Timeline

2025-12-05
CVE-2025-6966 published
2026-03-04
Fedora 42 apt 3.1.15 local DoS fix released
2026-03-04
Fedora 43 apt 3.1.15 local DoS advisory released