MGASA-2018-0059

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    MGASA-2018-0059

    Published: 4 Jan 2018Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-16667

    Summary: Updated backintime packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: backintime (aka Back in Time) before 1.1.24 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 in qt4/plugins/notifyplugin.py. This could allow an attacker to craft an unreadable file with a specific name to run arbitrary shell commands (CVE-2017-16667).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0059.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22000, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/4QNBPN76RX2RKR2K7NEMJMOD576ASBHA/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: backintime

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/backintime?arch=source&distro=mageia-6

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.1.24-1.mga6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
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    Availability
    None
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