Re: CVE for Kali Linux

[Russ Allbery <eagle () eyrie org>]

Alexander Cherepanov <ch3root () openwall com> writes:

> There are some attacks even if you verify signatures, e.g. serving old,
> known-vulnerable versions. HTTPS can help here (until signatures start
> to be widely accompanied by expiring timestamps or something).

Debian is indeed moving in exactly that direction, using the Valid-Until
attribute of the archive metadata.  This currently isn't (yet?) enabled
for the main stable archive, but is for the unstable and testing archives,
the security archive, and the backports archive.

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Russ Allbery (eagle () eyrie org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>