CVE-2017-16667

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06
• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24

References

• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06
• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
• https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24

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