Package: backuppc
Version: 3.1.0-4
Severity: important

In /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_archiveHost, line 124 and 127, a shell
command is build from configuration variables. However, this command is not
correctly quoted and will break if configuration (or host...) contains
blanks. Also, it will lead to severe malfunction if the configuration items
ArchiveDest (or host or tarExt) would contain shell-interpreted characters like
", ; or $.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages backuppc depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110           add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork [htt 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-1         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.24          Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                     1.14.25         Debian package management system
ii  libarchive-zip-perl      1.18-1          Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl    2.015-1         Perl module for creation and manip
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.10.0-19       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-suid                5.10.0-19       Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii  samba-common             2:3.2.5-4       Samba common files used by both th
ii  smbclient                2:3.2.5-4       a LanManager-like simple client fo
ii  tar                      1.20-1          GNU version of the tar archiving u

Versions of packages backuppc recommends:
ii  exim4                        4.69-9      metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) 
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tra 4.69-9      lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  libfile-rsyncp-perl          0.68-1.1+b1 A perl based implementation of an 
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]  1:5.1p1-5   secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  rrdtool                      1.3.1-4     Time-series data storage and displ
ii  rsync                        3.0.5-1     fast remote file copy program (lik

Versions of packages backuppc suggests:
ii  iceape-browser [www-br 1.1.14-1          Iceape Navigator (Internet browser
ii  iceweasel [www-browser 3.0.6-1           lightweight web browser based on M
ii  konqueror [www-browser 4:4.1.4-1~lenny+1 KDE 4's advanced file manager, web
ii  lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.7dev13-1      Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii  par2                   0.4-10            Parity Archive Volume Set, for che
ii  w3m [www-browser]      0.5.2-2+b1        WWW browsable pager with excellent

-- debconf information:
  backuppc/restart-webserver: true
* backuppc/configuration-note:
* backuppc/reconfigure-webserver: apache2



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