[Bug 756317] Re: Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices

Monsta 756317 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Sep 1 19:13:26 UTC 2014


> It's always the same file that is corrupted.
/var/lib/apt/lists/za.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-
updates_main_i18n_Translation-en

That's enough to mark it as a duplicate. APT was vulnerable precisely to the corrupted translation files.
If you don't believe (and have enough time), look at the comments above.

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Title:
  Captive portals may corrupt apt translation indices

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
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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