2008-07-15 10:00:04
The study Package Management Security, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the University of Arizona Tech Report, analyzed 10 package managers and found that all were vulnerable to exploits, allowing attackers to install unsafe software on target systems. Package managers are designed to automatically keep software up-to-date and thus safe from known vulnerabilities. The packages analyzed in the study were APT, APT-RPM, Pacman, Portage, Ports, Slaktool, Stork, Urpmi, Yast and YUM. 

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