File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6525
<patchinfo incident="6525"> <issue id="1026729" tracker="bnc">VUL-1: xtrabackup: database credentials shown in process list when passed as command line arguments</issue> <category>security</category> <rating>moderate</rating> <packager>AndreasStieger</packager> <description>This update to xtrabackup 2.3.7 fixes one security issue and bugs. The following security issue was fixed: - innobackupex and xtrabackup scripts were showing the password in the ps output when it was passed as a command line argument (boo#1026729) The following functionality was added: - new --remove-original option for removing the original encrypted and compressed files - now supports -H, -h, -u and -p shortcuts for --hostname, --datadir, --user and --password respectively The following bugs were fixed: - Pick up username from user's configuration file correctly - Incremental backups did not include xtrabackup_binlog_info and xtrabackup_galera_info files - --move-back option did not always restore out-of-datadir tablespaces to their original directories - Incremental backup would fail with a path like ~/backup/inc_1 </description> <summary>Security update for xtrabackup</summary> </patchinfo>