CVE-2007-5201

Advisory

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 package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081
• http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28917
• http://osvdb.org/42339
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5201