[SECURITY] [DSA 787-1] New backup-manager package fixes several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory DSA 787-1 [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;