Secunia Research: Bournal ccrypt Information Disclosure Security Issue

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                 Secunia Research 22/02/2010

  - Bournal ccrypt Information Disclosure Security Issue -

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Table of Contents

Affected Software…1
Severity…2
Vendor's Description of Software…3
Description of Vulnerability…4
Solution…5
Time Table…6
Credits…7
References…8
About Secunia…9
Verification…10

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1) Affected Software

• Bournal 1.4

NOTE: Other versions may also be affected.

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2) Severity

Rating: Not critical
Impact: Disclosure of sensitive information
Where: Local system

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3) Vendor's Description of Software

"Bournal is a bash script that allows you to keep a personal,
minimalistic, password-protected journal, log, or diary. It includes
encryption, regexp searches, and a date-sorted list for editing old
entries. Since Bournal is pure bash, it should be easily editable
for the CLI-savvy.".

Product Link:
http://becauseinter.net/bournal/

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4) Description of Security Issue

Secunia Research has discovered a security issue in Bournal, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive
information.

The script uses e.g. the insecure "-K" command line parameter to
pass the key to the ccrypt utilities, which can be exploited to
obtain the key from the list of running processes.

Note: This may not affect recent Linux versions, but is confirmed for
FreeBSD 8.0. Other systems may also be affected.

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5) Solution

Fixed in version 1.4.1 by preventing the use of the script on FreeBSD
systems. This may still affect other systems where users have access
to the full command line of other user's processes, despite ccrypt
disabling "echoing" on the terminal.

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6) Time Table

12/02/2010 - Vendor notified.
12/02/2010 - Vendor response.
22/02/2010 - Public disclosure.

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7) Credits

Discovered by Secunia Research.

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8) References

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project has assigned
CVE-2010-0119 for the security issue.

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10) Verification

Please verify this advisory by visiting the Secunia website:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-7/

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