Description
The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp, which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28917 ↗
- http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG ↗
- http://osvdb.org/42339 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html ↗