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TITLE:
Bacula MySQL Director Password Disclosure Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27243

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27243/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
Local system

SOFTWARE:
Bacula 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5734/

DESCRIPTION:
Matthijs Kooijman has reported a weakness in Bacula, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive
information.

The weakness is caused due to the "make_catalog_backup" script using
the MySQL password as command line argument when invoking other
programs. This can be exploited to disclose the password via e.g. the
"ps" command.

Note: In case of an error, the script may also send the MySQL
password in an unencrypted email, which can be exploited to disclose
the password via sniffing attacks.

SOLUTION:
Grant only trusted users access to affected systems. Disable the
email message notification.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug by Matthijs Kooijman.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Bacula bug:
http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=990

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446809

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