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  • Medium 6.9
    CVE-2025-6966

    Null-pointer dereference in python-apt TagSection.keys()

    NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

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  • Medium 4.7
    CVE-2019-15795

    python-apt uses MD5 for validation

    python-apt only checks the MD5 sums of downloaded files in `Version.fetch_binary()` and `Version.fetch_source()` of apt/package.py in version 1.9.0ubuntu1 and earlier. This allows a man-in-the-middle attack which could potentially be used to install altered p…

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  • Medium 4.7
    CVE-2019-15796

    python-apt downloads from untrusted sources

    Python-apt doesn't check if hashes are signed in `Version.fetch_binary()` and `Version.fetch_source()` of apt/package.py or in `_fetch_archives()` of apt/cache.py in version 1.9.3ubuntu2 and earlier. This allows downloads from unsigned repositories which shou…

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