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high7.8

CVE-2016-10729

An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ZmandaAmanda
Version 3.3.1
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Version 7.0
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0

Weakness classification

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