- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA-1518-1                  security@debian.org
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:

      Size/MD5 checksum:      923 fad99430055e40413827e477768dd077
      Size/MD5 checksum:    35661 a97a66d03c4a05072924998f48f7b5d6
      Size/MD5 checksum:    18510 4c33c9b8711ca3da4eb7f8f77214c26a

Architecture independent packages:

      Size/MD5 checksum:    30740 05b3fbc927d4ca0e7823a5dca7a1b9b0

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
- -------------------------------Source archives:

      Size/MD5 checksum:     1036 e63192d8ad7753a47baaae9c9df26f25
      Size/MD5 checksum:   159855 76e1c9cea0b8fb210d3862fd89e09c08
      Size/MD5 checksum:    98048 4c4e6282b938b98e9488d44243d7bb96

Architecture independent packages:

      Size/MD5 checksum:   219546 d97a5222cf45f9feb451ffb9c0c66164
      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:  dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org