Medium severity6.7NVD Advisory· Published Apr 16, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-37705
CVE-2022-37705
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in Amanda 3.5.1 in which the backup user can acquire root privileges. The vulnerable component is the runtar SUID program, which is a wrapper to run /usr/bin/tar with specific arguments that are controllable by the attacker. This program mishandles the arguments passed to tar binary (it expects that the argument name and value are separated with a space; however, separating them with an equals sign is also supported),
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Affected products
5- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/amanda&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.4pkg:rpm/opensuse/amanda&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/amanda&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP4
< 3.5.1-bp154.3.3.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-bp154.3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.2-3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.5.1-bp154.3.3.1
Patches
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References
12- github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194nvdPatch
- github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196nvdPatch
- github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204nvdPatch
- www.amanda.orgnvdProduct
- github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192nvd
- 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
- marc.infonvd
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