Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code Execution as Root

Posted by justicz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:40AM
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Re:Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code E... by SG- on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:02AM (#50366549)

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Re:Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code E... by pixl97 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:08AM (#50367608)

"Don't worry, package signing is enough, you don't need https"

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Re:Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code E... by SahAssar on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:29PM (#50373878)

"Don't worry, emudhra is not bad, we have package signing" - Ubuntu

What's the fallback after both signing and https are broken?

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Re:Debian's Apt Affected by MitM Attack for Arbitrary Code E... by pixl97 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:45PM (#50374477)

Living in a cave.

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