USN-5966-3: amanda regression
3 April 2023
Several security issues were fixed in amanda.
Releases
Packages
- amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)
Details
USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately that update
caused a regression and was reverted in USN-5966-2. This update provides
security fixes for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Maher Azzouzi discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the
calcsize binary within amanda. calcsize is a suid binary owned by root that
could possibly be used by a malicious local attacker to expose sensitive
file system information. (CVE-2022-37703)
Maher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the
rundump binary within amanda. rundump is a suid binary owned by root that
did not perform adequate sanitization of environment variables or
commandline options and could possibly be used by a malicious local
attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37704)
Maher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the runtar
binary within amanda. runtar is a suid binary owned by root that did not
perform adequate sanitization of commandline options and could possibly be
used by a malicious local attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37705)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.