[ubuntu/bionic-updates] apt 1.6.12ubuntu0.2 (Accepted)

Ubuntu Archive Robot cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Dec 9 16:58:23 UTC 2020


apt (1.6.12ubuntu0.2) bionic-security; urgency=high

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Integer overflow in parsing (LP: #1899193)
    - apt-pkg/contrib/arfile.cc: add extra checks.
    - apt-pkg/contrib/tarfile.cc: limit tar item sizes to 128 GiB
    - apt-pkg/deb/debfile.cc: limit control file sizes to 64 MiB
    - test/*: add tests.
    - CVE-2020-27350
  * Additional hardening:
    - apt-pkg/contrib/tarfile.cc: Limit size of long names and links to 1 MiB

Date: 2020-12-07 14:24:15.455068+00:00
Changed-By: Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode at canonical.com>
Signed-By: Ubuntu Archive Robot <cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.12ubuntu0.2
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