Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1518-1 backup-manager -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 15 Mar 2008
- Affected Packages:
- backup-manager
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 439392.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4656. - More information:
-
Micha Lenk discovered that backup-manager, a command-line backup tool, sends the password as a command line argument when calling a FTP client, which may allow a local attacker to read this password (which provides access to all backed-up files) from the process listing.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.7-1sarge2.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.5-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.6-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your backup-manager package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge2_all.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager-doc_0.7.5-4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4_all.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.