DSA-3297-1 unattended-upgrades -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3297-1 unattended-upgrades -- security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2015

Affected Packages:

unattended-upgrades

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-1330.

More information:

It was discovered that unattended-upgrades, a script for automatic installation of security upgrades, did not properly authenticate downloaded packages when the force-confold or force-confnew dpkg options were enabled via the DPkg::Options::* apt configuration.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.79.5+wheezy2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.83.3.2+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed shortly.

We recommend that you upgrade your unattended-upgrades packages.