Debian Security Advisory

DSA-827-1 backupninja -- insecure temporary file

Date Reported:

29 Sep 2005

Affected Packages:

backupninja

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3111.

More information:

Moritz Muehlenhoff discovered the handler code for backupninja creates a temporary file with a predictable filename, leaving it vulnerable to a symlink attack.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the backupninja package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.5-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.8-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your backupninja package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1_all.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.