Bug 1511396 (CVE-2017-16667) - CVE-2017-16667 backintime: Improper escaping/quoting of file paths
Summary: CVE-2017-16667 backintime: Improper escaping/quoting of file paths
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: CVE-2017-16667
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1511397 1511398
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-11-09 09:55 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: backintime 1.1.24
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Last Closed: 2019-05-06 07:23:22 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-11-09 09:55:50 UTC 
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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-11-09 09:56:09 UTC 
Created backintime tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1511398]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1511397]
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