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Debian: CVE-2022-37705: amanda -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2022-37705: amanda -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/16/2023
Created
12/12/2023
Added
12/11/2023
Modified
12/11/2023

Description

A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges. The vulnerable component is the runtar SUID program, which is a wrapper to run /usr/bin/tar with specific arguments that are controllable by the attacker. This program mishandles the arguments passed to tar binary (it expects that the argument name and value are separated with a space; however, separating them with an equals sign is also supported),

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-amanda

References

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