Debian Security Advisory DSA 1216-1 (flexbackup)

The remote host is missing an update to flexbackup announced via advisory DSA 1216-1. Eric Romang discovered that the flexbackup backup tool creates temporary files in an insecure manner, which allows denial of service through a symlink attack. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb12161.nasl 6616...

Debian DSA-1216-1 : flexbackup - insecure temporary file

Eric Romang discovered that the flexbackup backup tool creates temporary files in an insecure manner, which allows denial of service through a symlink attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Debian...