amanda: CVE-2022-37703

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-37703  

Debian Bug report logs - #1021017
amanda: CVE-2022-37703

Reported by: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:51:06 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, team@security.debian.org, Jose M Calhariz <calhariz@debian.org>:
Bug#1021017; Package src:amanda. (Fri, 30 Sep 2022 14:51:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: amanda: CVE-2022-37703
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:49:24 +0200
Source: amanda
X-Debbugs-CC: team@security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for amanda.

CVE-2022-37703[0]:
| In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the
| calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to know
| if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary will use
| `opendir()` as root directly without checking the path, letting the
| attacker provide an arbitrary path.

https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-37703
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37703

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.



Added tag(s) upstream. Request was from Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:24:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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