glsa-201801-06.xml


1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201801-06">
  <title>Back In Time: Command injection</title>
  <synopsis>A command injection vulnerability in 'Back in Time' may allow for
    the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">backintime</product>
  <announced>2018-01-07</announced>
  <revised count="1">2018-01-07</revised>
  <bug>636974</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-backup/backintime" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.1.24</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.1.24</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by “flyback project”.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>‘Back in Time’ did improper escaping/quoting of file paths used as
      arguments to the ‘notify-send’ command leading to some parts of file
      paths being executed as shell commands within an os.system call.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands via
      a specially crafted file.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All ‘Back In Time’ users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-backup/backintime-1.1.24"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-16667">
      CVE-2017-16667
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-01-05T05:36:24Z">jmbailey</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-01-07T23:41:27Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>