Hello Julian, or anyone else affected, Accepted apt into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/2.1.10ubuntu0.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed- groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Groovy) Status: In Progress => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-groovy -- 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/1916050 Title: Invalid base64 for high-bit characters Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Bionic: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Focal: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Groovy: Fix Committed Status in apt source package in Hirsute: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] The Base64Encode function incorrectly encodes using char instead of uint8_t, leading to characters with the high bit set to be encoded wrongly. This function is used for base authentication, and high bits are set for UTF-8 character sequences, so it's likely affecting people with utf-8 user names and passwords and might cause them to be denied access to their https resources (though arguably they'd work around that). [Test case] A unit test has been added that checks that the encoding is correct. [Where problems could occur] This only affects the base64 encoding function, which is only used for quoting user names and passwords in basic auth in http, but it's also exposed to library users and like in python-apt, so problems could occur wherever they use that base64 encoding function as well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1916050/+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
