[Bug 756317] Re: Captive portals may corrupt apt package lists

[Roberto D'Auria]

As I said in a duplicate bug, I think this is a serious issue both from
a user viewpoint (i've seen people switching back to Windows due to this
bug, since a "normal" user doesn't know how to fix this) and a security
viewpoint. The captive portal owner could easily insert a malicious
repository into the APT configuration.

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Title:
  Captive portals may corrupt apt package lists

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “apt” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  I have an adsl modem which returns an html page if the adsl link is
  broken. This page ends as the content of the apt cache files stored in
  /var/lib/apt/lists, which breaks apt.

  The only way to make apt work again is to delete all the files stored
  in /var/lib/apt/lists.

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