OK, so it's perhaps not a security problem, but it sure is a problem!
>From anyone but an expert's point of view, if that happens, your Ubuntu
system appears to be broken. One cannot install new software or get
updates. Worrying error messages will appear.
Proper system behaviour would be to:
(a) detect malformed files before the old files are trashed.
(b) do not throw away the old files until the new ones are confirmed,
(c) Produce an intelligible error message, something on the order of
"Your attempt to update Ubuntu failed because the updates are corrupted.
Please check your network connection, check the server, and try again."
** Changed in: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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Title:
corrupted /var/lib/apt/lists
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