CVE-2008-4636: Suse YAST2-Backup

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

yast2-backup 2.14.2 through 2.16.6 on SUSE Linux and Novell Linux allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in filenames used by the backup process.

Affected products

• Suse YAST2-Backup: from 2.14.2, up to and including 2.16.6

Published 2008-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.