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Red Hat: CVE-2022-37705: amanda: runtar: crafted arguments can lead to local privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 16, 2023
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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