CVE-2007-5201 Information

Description

The FTP backend for Duplicity before 0.4.9 sends the password as a command line argument when calling ncftp which might allow local users to read the password by listing the process and its arguments.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442840 http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG http://osvdb.org/42339 http://secunia.com/advisories/28917 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27771 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293081 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00356.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00445.html