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Fedora 10: FEDORA-2009-9973 Moderate: BackupPC Permission Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey October 27, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
BackupPC on Fedora 10 January released an important patch addressing a critical vulnerability related to unauthorized access. Discover further specifics regarding this enhancement.

Summary

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux

and WinXX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable

and easy to install and maintain.

ChangeLog:

* Fri Sep 25 2009 Johan Cwiklinski 3.1.0-6

- Fix security bug (bug #518412)

* Fri Sep 18 2009 Johan Cwiklinski 3.1.0-5

- Fix SELinux policy module for UserEmailInfo.pl file

* Fri Apr 10 2009 Johan Cwiklinski 3.1.0-4

- Fix TopDir change (bug #473944)

References:

[ 1 ] Bug #518412 - CVE-2009-3369 BackupPC: Permission bypass via ClientNameAlias by using rsync data backup method

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518412

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use

su -c 'yum update BackupPC' at the command line.

For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",

available at .

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

Fedora-package-announce mailing list

Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: BackupPC
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 3.1.0
Release: 6.fc10
URL:
Summary: High-performance backup system

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