Re: Package management unsafe?

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

Joe Smith wrote:
> However, if the security updates come from trusted security mirrors rather than
> a general mirror, that attack would fail too. So with the exception of Sid or
> Testing users that do not use the testing-security system to receive security
> updates, Debian really is not terribly vulnerable to this. 
>   
It would still be possible to mount this attack if the attacker can 
intercept packets on the way to the official trusted security mirror and 
redirect them (e.g. transparent proxy) to an older copy of the mirror.

Brian May