| Name | CVE-2007-5626 |
| Description | make_catalog_backup in Bacula 2.2.5, and probably earlier, sends a MySQL password as a command line argument, and sometimes transmits cleartext e-mail containing this command line, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain the password by listing the process and its arguments, or by sniffing the network. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 446809 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bacula (PTS) | jessie | 5.2.6+dfsg-9.3 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 7.4.4+dfsg-6+deb9u2 | fixed |
| buster | 9.4.2-2+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 9.6.7-3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 9.6.7-7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 13.0.4-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| bacula | source | (unstable) | 5.0.0-1 | unimportant | | 446809 |
Notes
this script needs the default database password and name needs to be set which
would be a bigger problem in a non-trusted environment. Apart from
this is documented in the bacula documentation
Since bacula 5.0.0 "make_catalog_backup.pl" is used by default, which is not affected