Source: backintime Version: 1.1.12-2 Severity: grave Tags: patch security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for backintime. CVE-2017-16667[0]: | backintime (aka Back in Time) before 1.1.24 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 in qt4/plugins/notifyplugin.py. This | could allow an attacker to craft an unreadable file with a specific | name to run arbitrary shell commands. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16667 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16667 [1] https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834 [2] https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore _______________________________________________ Secure-testing-team mailing list Secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/secure-testing-team
