CVE-2009-3611 Information

Description

common/snapshots.py in Back In Time (aka backintime) 0.9.26 changes certain permissions to 0777 before deleting the files in an old backup snapshot which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files or interfere with backup integrity by modifying files that are shared across snapshots.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543785 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289047 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/backintime/backintime_0.9.26-3.diff.gz http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125553645511436&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125554894700336&w=2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backintime/+bug/434256 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520210 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00821.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00823.html