-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 787-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze August 26th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : backup manager Vulnerability : insecure permissions and tempfile Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1855 CAN-2005-1856 Debian Bug : 308897 315582 Two bugs have been found in backup-manager, a command-line driven backup utility. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CAN-2005-1855 Jeroen Vermeulen discovered that backup files are created with default permissions making them world readable, even though they may contain sensitive information. CAN-2005-1856 Sven Joachim discovered that the optional CD-burning feature of backup-manager uses a hardcoded filename in a world-writable directory for logging. This can be subject to a symlink attack. The old stable distribution (woody) does not provide the backup-manager package. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.7-1sarge1. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.8-2. We recommend that you upgrade your backup-manager package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 631 6b20ee3cd0439df2e95819d5001f7e53 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 17938 a6f1ae5f8555c17c9db3a0fc2ba9ec7a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 35661 a97a66d03c4a05072924998f48f7b5d6 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge1_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30550 3bbe99ebf51f69ca80a93e19a64880ac These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDDtpaW5ql+IAeqTIRAkbWAKCiecMJv5jU0n2Ze5qpPAuAut9gjQCdGupE QXML+ffIYisiEh72TjPd0L4= =SMMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
