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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-15 Moderate: Bacula Local Data Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey July 21, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Regional assailants could take advantage of a Bacula vulnerability to obtain confidential information through data exposure. Discover further details!
A vulnerability in Bacula may allow local attackers to obtain sensitive information.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200807-10
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Bacula: Information disclosure
      Date: July 21, 2008
      Bugs: #196834
        ID: 200807-10


Synopsis
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A vulnerability in Bacula may allow local attackers to obtain sensitive
information.

Background
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Bacula is a network based backup suite.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  app-backup/bacula       < 2.4.1                          >= 2.4.1

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Matthijs Kooijman reported that the "make_catalog_backup" script uses
the MySQL password as a command line argument when invoking other
programs.

Impact
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A local attacker could...
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