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Debian 10: DLA-3681-1 moderate: amanda privilege escalation and info leak

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Calendar Grey December 3, 2023
Dist Debian Esm H88
Multiple issues in Amanda can lead to privilege escalation and information leaks; urgent upgrade recommended.
Multiple vulnerabilties have been found in Amanda,a backup system designed to archive many computers on a network to a single large-capacity tape drive

Summary

CVE-2022-37703

In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the
calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to
know if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary
will use `opendir()` as root directly without checking the path,
letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.


CVE-2022-37705

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.

CVE-2023-30577

The SUID binary "runtar" can accept the possibly malicious GNU tar
options if fed with some non-argument option starting with
"--exclude" (say --exclude-vcs). The following option will be
accepted as "good" and it could be an option passing some

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Package: amanda
Version: 1:3.5.1-2+deb10u2
CVE ID: CVE-2022-37703 CVE-2022-37705 CVE-2023-30577
Debian Bug: 1021017 1029829 1055253

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