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

[Patrick Wigmore]

I believe I have just experienced this bug in xenial with apt 1.2.32.
Files in /var/lib/apt/lists contained HTML from a captive portal, breaking apt until they were removed.

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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:
  Fix Released

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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