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Fedora: 2017-36eb9502b0 critical: backintime race condition

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Calendar Grey April 17, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Boost your Fedora 26 setup by applying the backintime update, which addresses a significant race condition security flaw.
- update to 1.1.20 - fixes CVE-2017-7572

Summary

Back In Time is a simple backup system for Linux inspired from

flyback project and TimeVault. The backup is done by taking

snapshots of a specified set of directories.

- update to 1.1.20 - fixes CVE-2017-7572

[ 1 ] Bug #1441585 - CVE-2017-7572 backintime: Race condition in the checkPolkitPrivilege function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1441585

[ 2 ] Bug #1440556 - backintime-1.1.20 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440556

su -c 'dnf upgrade backintime' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.1.20
Release: 1.fc26
URL: Summary : Simple backup tool inspired from the Flyback project and TimeVault

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