From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 17:25:02 CDT

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TITLE:
Debian update for backupninja

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA17018

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17018/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Privilege escalation

WHERE:
Local system

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
http://secunia.com/product/5307/
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid
http://secunia.com/product/530/

DESCRIPTION:
Debian has issued an update for backupninja. This fixes a
vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to
perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated
privileges.

For more information:
SA16995

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 702 fca2a04a7e02aebb41e0d3361706dcd7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9620 c6e317bdcfe2e5987ae5732208cfcf86
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 24667 94ff16fbd0ccffeb252de3d303626558

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/backupninja/backupninja_0.5-3sarge1_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 30650 68b2d618fead50ee4f9a17ba818504d4

-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

Fixed in version 0.8-2.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-827

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA16995:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16995/

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