usn-5966-3
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
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)
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"details": "USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately that update\ncaused a regression and was reverted in USN-5966-2. This update provides\nsecurity fixes for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04\nLTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.\n\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nOriginal advisory details:\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the\ncalcsize binary within amanda. calcsize is a suid binary owned by root that\ncould possibly be used by a malicious local attacker to expose sensitive\nfile system information. (CVE-2022-37703)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the\nrundump binary within amanda. rundump is a suid binary owned by root that\ndid not perform adequate sanitization of environment variables or\ncommandline options and could possibly be used by a malicious local\nattacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37704)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the runtar\nbinary within amanda. runtar is a suid binary owned by root that did not\nperform adequate sanitization of commandline options and could possibly be\nused by a malicious local attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37705)\n \n",
"id": "USN-5966-3",
"modified": "2026-02-10T04:43:01Z",
"published": "2023-04-03T02:46:52Z",
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5966-3"
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"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-37703"
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"url": "https://launchpad.net/bugs/2012536"
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"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"summary": "amanda regression",
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"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37703",
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