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Debian's APT Affected By Man-In-The-Middle Attack For Arbitrary Code Execution As Root

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A newly disclosed flaw in Debian's APT package manager lets an attacker positioned in a man-in-the-middle role on the network execute arbitrary code with root privileges on affected systems.

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