Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1517

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-01 17:18:07

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar.

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