These kind of things *should not* happen anymore today. In ancient
versions like the one in trusty, things are a bit more fragile, but
there was a lot of reworking in the 1.1 series and newer.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
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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:
Fix Released
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.)
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