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TITLE:
Backup Manager Information Disclosure Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA26657

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26657/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Backup Manager 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/5225/

DESCRIPTION:
Micha Lenk has reported a security issue in Backup Manager, which can
be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive
information.

The security issue is caused due to the host, username, and password
used to connect to a remote FTP server being shown in the process
list. This can be exploited to gain unauthorized FTP access to the
remote backup server.

The security issue is reported in versions prior to 0.6.3.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.3.
http://www2.backup-manager.org/Release063

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Micha Lenk

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Backup Manager:
http://www2.backup-manager.org/Release063

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439392

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