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Secunia Advisory SA26657

Backup Manager Information Disclosure Security Issue
Secunia Advisory SA26657
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Release Date 2007-08-31
Last Update 2007-09-06
   
Popularity 8,587 views
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Criticality level Less criticalLess critical
Impact Exposure of sensitive information
Where Local system
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Software:
Backup Manager 0.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2007-4656 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description

Micha Lenk has reported a security issue in Backup Manager, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the host, username, and password used to connect to a remote FTP server being shown in the process list. This can be exploited to gain unauthorized FTP access to the remote backup server.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 0.6.3.


Solution
Update to version 0.6.3.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Micha Lenk

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
Backup Manager:
http://www2.backup-manager.org/Release063

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439392

Deep Links
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