- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 787-1                     security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
August 26th, 2005                       https://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:

          Size/MD5 checksum:      631 6b20ee3cd0439df2e95819d5001f7e53
          Size/MD5 checksum:    17938 a6f1ae5f8555c17c9db3a0fc2ba9ec7a
          Size/MD5 checksum:    35661 a97a66d03c4a05072924998f48f7b5d6

  Architecture independent components:

          Size/MD5 checksum:    30550 3bbe99ebf51f69ca80a93e19a64880ac


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next update.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb https://www.debian.org/security/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: New backup-manager package fixes several vulnerabilities

August 26, 2005
Updated package.

Summary


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 t...

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