-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1518-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst March 15, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : backup-manager Vulnerability : programming error Problem type : local Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-4656 Debian Bug : 439392 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 stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.5-4. For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.5.7-1sarge2. 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. 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_0.5.7-1sarge2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 923 fad99430055e40413827e477768dd077 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 35661 a97a66d03c4a05072924998f48f7b5d6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 18510 4c33c9b8711ca3da4eb7f8f77214c26a Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.5.7-1sarge2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 30740 05b3fbc927d4ca0e7823a5dca7a1b9b0 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 1036 e63192d8ad7753a47baaae9c9df26f25 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 159855 76e1c9cea0b8fb210d3862fd89e09c08 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 98048 4c4e6282b938b98e9488d44243d7bb96 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager-doc_0.7.5-4_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 219546 d97a5222cf45f9feb451ffb9c0c66164 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backup-manager/backup-manager_0.7.5-4_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 109278 bcb8c5d8902e36ac0348c94a84cf04cb 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBR9xJ7mz0hbPcukPfAQJrtQgAmwTWjmqoD4C8gr1DhGu6wXrzKU63tXr+ LEkAEb6HP394M+p7mu8V11JtqsyA2btxMqZD9lpqbNQ0b2JrZH9qHq1SZ5sO/mN4 VM++xZ+TYMVFaP15dbAZCcHNYKfPS9HGUQJngl5c5Xpsb+zMxuH2l3qlLfBXWcl5 Jc1NiiHPpF1QcjqO4+S7fYk8bagQXtjPUDalePh3aAeswnCJbd8iSqZDKULYB/qZ 2xpaXhP9h1BN3Xb1lLtkSIzvjfQDzO6NW8D9o3FHSinCYgBBf0ZQSfIWpCSx8Ymk jnRWw6U0+WrGoBkSoE2934b5l28EtbDgjEBLQseHx7Taj6yyCPDDJA== =VPx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
