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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2016-10729)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of amanda installed on the remote host is prior to 3.3.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2218 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2016-10729)

    An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client     installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses     star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line     argument --star-path. (CVE-2016-10730)

    AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument     checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705. (CVE-2023-30577)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of amanda installed on the remote host is prior to 2.6.1p2-8.14. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1808 advisory.

    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. (CVE-2016-10729)

    AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument     checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705. (CVE-2023-30577)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for amanda fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2016-10729: Fixed a local privilege escalation from amanda to root via unsafe tar command options (bsc#1112916).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for amanda fixes the following security issue :

  - CVE-2016-10729: Local privilege escalation from amanda     user to root via unsafe tar command options     (bsc#1112916)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
219330	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10729	Nessus	Misc.	high
180092	Amazon Linux 2 : amanda (ALAS-2023-2218)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
180081	Amazon Linux AMI : amanda (ALAS-2023-1808)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
119719	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : amanda (SUSE-SU-2018:4121-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
119026	openSUSE Security Update : amanda (openSUSE-2018-1421)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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