Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10729

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-10-24 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 03:30:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.