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Comment on Debian Security Advisory: DSA-3025-1 aptparent

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does not properly invalidate unauthenticated data (CVE-2014-0488), performs incorrect verification of 304 replies (CVE-2014-0487), does not perform the checksum check when the Acquire::GzipIndexes option is used (CVE-2014-0489) and does not properly perform validation for binary packages downloaded by the apt-get download command (CVE-2014-0490).

There are four specific scenarios that are vulnerable, and none of them appears to be the common scenario of updating packages. Details still sparse, but this seems like a minor security update.

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