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If package has no description information it is displayed wrong (security bug) #203

Closed mxa closed 6 years ago

mxa commented 7 years ago

A package can look like it is a different one. This might trick you into installing an update by thinking that it is for a different package. I suspect this bug is caused by an empty description field. Reproducible with the photoflow-git package from the dhor/myway PPA. Here it looks like we are updating VLC, but in fact it is the Photoflow package. VLC was the last package updated. mintupdate photoflow

mxa commented 7 years ago

See also this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1639456 and video https://vid.me/khGr

icarter09 commented 6 years ago

@mxa is this issue still occurring? I'm having a hard time duplicating this bug.

mxa commented 6 years ago

@icarter09 Sorry, can't test, I moved on to Kubuntu since.