[Bug 1034834] Re: Captive WiFi portals corrupt package lists
Paul F
boxjunk at hotmail.co.uk
Tue Sep 25 14:31:27 UTC 2012
See also Bug #756317, Bug #1001209.
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Title:
Captive WiFi portals corrupt package lists
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I've dealt with several users reporting apt is broken. The cause is
corrupted package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists/ caused by captive
portals on WiFi networks that are returning HTTP 200 responses but
with the content being the captive portal's login page.
apt doesn't realise the content is invalid - it doesn't check the
signature - before writing it to the system.
This affects Precise users with apt 0.8.16.
It shouldn't affect Quantal's 0.9.7 since that apparently checks the
gpg signatures.
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