Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in Backup Manager, which potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Backup Manager Unspecified Insecure Temporary File Creation
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15989
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15989/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Backup Manager 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5225/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Backup Manager, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to temporary files being created
insecurely when burning a CDR.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.5.8a. Prior versions
may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.5.8b.
http://www.sukria.net/packages/backup-manager/sources/backup-manager-0.5.8b.tar.gz
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.
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