Low severity3.3NVD Advisory· Published Sep 13, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-37703
CVE-2022-37703
Description
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.
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References
8- www.amanda.orgnvdVendor Advisory
- bugs.gentoo.org/870037nvdThird Party Advisory
- github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.htmlnvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.htmlnvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/nvd
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