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TITLE:
Bournal ccrypt Information Disclosure Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38723

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38723/

DESCRIPTION:
Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Bournal, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive
information.

The script uses e.g. the insecure "-K" command line parameter to pass
the key to the ccrypt utilities, which can be exploited to obtain the
key from the list of running processes.

Note: This may not affect recent Linux versions, but is confirmed for
FreeBSD 8.0. Other systems may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in version 1.4.1 by preventing the use of the script on FreeBSD
systems. This may still affect other systems where users have access
to the full command line of other user's processes, despite ccrypt
disabling "echoing" on the terminal.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Secunia Research

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-7/

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