Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has acknowledged a weakness in bacula, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Gentoo Bacula MySQL Director Password Disclosure Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31184
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31184/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has acknowledged a weakness in bacula, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive
information.
For more information:
SA27243
SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends not to use the make_catalog_backup script.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-10.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27243:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27243/
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