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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:3804-1 Moderate: Amanda Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Apply a critical security patch to address the privilege escalation vulnerability in the Amanda backup tool on openSUSE Jump and enhance security
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for amanda fixes the following security issue:

- CVE-2016-10729: Local privilege escalation from amanda user to root via

unsafe tar command options (bsc#1112916)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation openSUSE patch instructions

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1421=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

amanda-3.3.6-10.3.1

amanda-debuginfo-3.3.6-10.3.1

amanda-debugsource-3.3.6-10.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10729.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112916

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3804-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update privilege escalation openSUSE patch instructions

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