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Trust expires between the check and the use

The package that gets verified and then swapped On November 4, CVE-2026-109518 was published in APT, the package manager for Debian and Ubuntu. The flaw is a race. An attacker in the middle of the connection, or a malicious mirror, swaps the package right after APT has verified it and before it ins…

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  1. 2026-11-06 10:13 · DEV Community — AI
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