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Medium ALAS2-2023-2218 3 CVEs

Moderate: amanda security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 17, 2023 · Updated Aug 23, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-30577: AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705. CVE-2016-10730: An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line argument --star-path. CVE-2016-10729: An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. The "runtar" setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after --create, allowing users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 amanda 0:3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 amanda-client 0:3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 amanda-debuginfo 0:3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 amanda-libs 0:3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 amanda-server 0:3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.8

    AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument checking for …

  • Unscored —

    An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. …

  • Unscored —

    An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. …

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2016-10729.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2016-10730.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-30577.html