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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 fi...
Debian 12 and Fedora 43 have released updates to address vulnerabilities in the python-apt package, which is a wrapper for using APT features in Python. The updates include the latest upstream releases of apt 3.1.15 and python-apt 3.1.0, fixing security issues and build problems. A known CVE, CVE-20...
A security issue was identified in python-apt affecting Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and its derivatives. The update, USN-7916-1, introduced a regression due to a PEP 440 incompatible version. This latest update resolves the problem and addresses the incorrect handling of deb822 configuration.
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 u...
