Debian DLA-58-3 : apt robustness improvements

high Nessus Plugin ID 82204

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

The recent security updates to apt make apt bug #710924 [1] much easier to trigger. Affected users see '416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable' errors during a apt-get update operation. With the 0.8.10.3+squeeze7 upload the fix for this error that was originally introduced in version 0.9.12 [2] is now backported.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710924 [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=331e8396ee5a4f2e 7d276eddc54749b2a13dd789

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82204

File Name: debian_DLA-58.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-transport-https, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-utils, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapt-pkg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapt-pkg-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:apt-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2014

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