** Summary changed: - Root-owned files being overwritten with HTML by unknown program. + apt cron can corrupt /var/lib/apt/lists with captive portal garbage
-- 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/1518785 Title: apt cron can corrupt /var/lib/apt/lists with captive portal garbage Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On my wife's laptop running Trusty, patched to approximately a week ago, all of the /var/lib/apt/lists/*i18n_Translation_en* files were trashed by being overwritten by an HTML file from OMNI Hotels (first few lines pasted below). We had looked at the hotel network signup page using Firefox but decided against paying for the hotel net, The ownership,group for the overwritten files was still root,root and writeable only by owner. The overwriting of these files his broke updates. Moving these HTML files into a "jail" directory and running "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" seems to have gotten updating working again. I have not found any other overwritten files, or other damage, yet. This seems to have been benign but annoying, but it's unsettling to see root files overwritten by a hotel network login like this. First few lines of the HTML file. the latter part has "terms and conditions, etc.": <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <HTML> <HEAD> <title>Omni Hotels</title> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7,IE=9" > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/css/nomadix/bootstrap_MPY_v1.css"; /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/css/nomadix/common.css"; /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/css/nomadix/custom.css"; /> <script language="javascript" src="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/js/nomadix/nomadix.js";></script> <script language="javascript" src="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/js/jquery-1.11.1.min.js";></script> <script language="javascript" src="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/js/jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js";></script> <script language="javascript" src="https://nomadix.omnihotels.com/js/bootstrap-3.2.min.js";></script> (I've saved the full content of these files for possible later analysis.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1518785/+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
