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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201801-06">
<title>Back In Time: Command injection</title>
<synopsis>A command injection vulnerability in 'Back in Time' may allow for
the execution of arbitrary shell commands.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">backintime</product>
<announced>2018-01-07</announced>
<revised count="1">2018-01-07</revised>
<bug>636974</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-backup/backintime" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">1.1.24</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">1.1.24</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by “flyback project”.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Back in Time 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.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands via
a specially crafted file.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All Back In Time users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-backup/backintime-1.1.24"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-16667">
CVE-2017-16667
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-01-05T05:36:24Z">jmbailey</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-01-07T23:41:27Z">jmbailey</metadata>
</glsa>