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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2023.1773
USN-5966-2: amanda regression
24 March 2023
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: amanda
Publisher: Ubuntu
Operating System: Ubuntu
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2022-37705 CVE-2022-37704 CVE-2022-37703
Original Bulletin:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5966-2
Comment: CVSS (Max): 6.7 CVE-2022-37705 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVSS Source: NVD, [Red Hat]
Calculator: https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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USN-5966-2: amanda regression
23 March 2023
USN-5966-1 introduced a regression in amanda
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Releases
o Ubuntu 22.10
o Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
o Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
o Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
Packages
o amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)
Details
USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately it introduced
a regression in GNUTAR-based backups. This update reverts all of the
changes in amanda until a better fix is provided.
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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Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package
versions:
Ubuntu 22.10
o amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-9ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 22.04
o amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.2
Ubuntu 20.04
o amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-2ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 18.04
o amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-1ubuntu0.2
Ubuntu 16.04
o amanda-client - 1:3.3.6-4.1ubuntu0.1+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Ubuntu 14.04
o amanda-client - 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu1.1+esm2
Available with Ubuntu Pro
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
o https://launchpad.net/bugs/2012536
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