Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2016-10729

Published: 24 October 2018

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
amanda
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
disco Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
eoan Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
focal Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
groovy Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
impish Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
jammy Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
lunar Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1:3.5.1-1build2)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needs-triage)
upstream
Released (3.3.9)
xenial Needed

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/commit/2ba9a5fb84ba2faaeb95695a03bd7f26cbdfedb8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H