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Re: Study: Attacks on package managers (inclusing apt)



On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
Today there were some news about a study from the University of Arizona
regarding security issues with package management systems (like apt). I
did not yet read the whole study, but probably it's interesting for the
project (they write about "vulnerabilities"). The study is here:

It doesn't appear that they had a firm grasp of how package distribution actually works in debian, at least. Mostly it seems like oversensationalized attention-grabbing.

Mike Stone


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