Package: debsecan
Version: 0.4.19
Severity: normal

Debsecan alerts on an issue, where it should not:

root@eb7632717672:# debsecan --suite=buster --only-fixed --format detail
CVE-2020-27350 (fixed)
APT had several integer overflows and underflows while parsing .deb pa ...
  installed: apt 1.8.2.3
             (built from apt 1.8.2.3)
  fixed in unstable: apt 2.1.13 (source package)
  fixed on branch:   apt 1.4.11 (source package)
  fixed on branch:   apt 1.8.2.2 (source package)
  fix is available for the selected suite (buster)

Debsecan recommends version 1.8.2.2, but detected the
installed version to be 1.8.2.3.

The content of /var/lib/dpkg/status for apt is:

Package: apt
Status: install ok installed
Priority: important
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 4064
Maintainer: APT Development Team <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.8.2.3
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The expected behaviour would be to not have this listed as vulnerable since the version number dictates it to be fixed.

I have compared this with following previous issues:
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823664
* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=898458

I deemed these to be not relevant enough as the version string changed quite a bit more.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.9
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.121-linuxkit (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_RANDSTRUCT
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages debsecan depends on:
ii  ca-certificates        20200601~deb10u2
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.71
ii  python                 2.7.16-1
ii  python-apt             1.8.4.3

Versions of packages debsecan recommends:
ii  cronie [cron]                              1.5.5-3
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.92-8+deb10u6

debsecan suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  debsecan/mailto: root
  debsecan/report: true
  debsecan/suite: GENERIC
  debsecan/source:

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