A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
Apr 16, 2023
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Dec 3, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 16, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Apr 16, 2023
Last updated
Dec 3, 2023
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),
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