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(CVE-2022-37703)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the\nrundump binary within amanda. rundump is a suid binary owned by root that\ndid not perform adequate sanitization of environment variables or\ncommandline options and could possibly be used by a malicious local\nattacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37704)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the runtar\nbinary within amanda. runtar is a suid binary owned by root that did not\nperform adequate sanitization of commandline options and could possibly be\nused by a malicious local attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37705)\n","status":"published","published":"2023-03-23T06:20:37Z","modified":"2026-02-10T04:43:01Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:16.738762Z"},{"id":"USN-5966-3","title":"amanda regression","description":"USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately that update\ncaused a regression and was reverted in USN-5966-2. This update provides\nsecurity fixes for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04\nLTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.\n\nWe apologize for the inconvenience.\n\nOriginal advisory details:\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the\ncalcsize binary within amanda. calcsize is a suid binary owned by root that\ncould possibly be used by a malicious local attacker to expose sensitive\nfile system information. (CVE-2022-37703)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the\nrundump binary within amanda. rundump is a suid binary owned by root that\ndid not perform adequate sanitization of environment variables or\ncommandline options and could possibly be used by a malicious local\nattacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37704)\n\nMaher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the runtar\nbinary within amanda. runtar is a suid binary owned by root that did not\nperform adequate sanitization of commandline options and could possibly be\nused by a malicious local attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37705)\n \n","status":"published","published":"2023-04-03T02:46:52Z","modified":"2026-02-10T04:43:01Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:16.738762Z"}]}}