A new vulnerability in Debian’s Advanced Package Tool ( apt ) is the latest big tool in the data center attacker’s arsenal. The vulnerability (CVE-2019-3462) is in Debian’s high-level package management system, which is used by system administrators to install, upgrade and remove software packages. The vulnerability can be exploited when administrators install or upgrade software package on vulnerable servers. \r\n The  apt  package management software is part of every Debian based Linux distribution, covering Debian, Ubuntu and a whole group of smaller distributions such as Kali, TailsOS and many others. Distrowatch lists over  100 active distributions  (large and small) based on Debian. All of these are likely to be vulnerable.…