[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
Marking this as released. It seems we fixed most instances of these bugs in apt 1.1 and later (xenial and newer), with its massive changes to the acquire system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
Marking this as released. It seems we fixed most instances of these bugs in apt 1.1 and later (xenial and newer), with its massive changes to the acquire system. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
I'm having the same issue. In my case the file was a corrupt (probably partial download) of a bzip2 file. apt-get update fixes the issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
** Information type changed from Public to Public Security ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
** Tags added: utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Touch-packages] [Bug 1406268] Re: apt does not validate lists received from the network.
** Information type changed from Private Security to Public ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406268 Title: apt does not validate lists received from the network. Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When loading update manager on my laptop, I noticed that it silently stopped and would not load or check for updates. Upon investigation I discovered the following error:- #apt-get update . . . Reading package lists... Error! E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty_main_i18n_Translation-en E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. # The cause of this was that, some time ago it had tried to update while on a network which had some filtering, and the content of a number of files inside the folder "/var/lib/apt/lists" contained a "pay wall" HTML screen. I was however, no-longer connected to the network in question and the error persisted indefinitely until I manually removed the files which had the suspect content. eg. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/extras.ubuntu.com* I see this as a significant security issue, since any user could connect to a public wifi point, and accidentally collect corrupted apt list data, either before signing on to a pay wall, or if they do not sign on, and after this _NO FURTHER UPDATES_ will be performed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1406268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
