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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.12.2023.5966.3
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-5966-3)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'amanda' package(s) announced via the USN-5966-3 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'amanda' package(s) announced via the USN-5966-3 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately that update
caused a regression and was reverted in USN-5966-2. This update provides
security fixes for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Maher Azzouzi discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the
calcsize binary within amanda. calcsize is a suid binary owned by root that
could possibly be used by a malicious local attacker to expose sensitive
file system information. (CVE-2022-37703)

Maher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the
rundump binary within amanda. rundump is a suid binary owned by root that
did not perform adequate sanitization of environment variables or
commandline options and could possibly be used by a malicious local
attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37704)

Maher Azzouzi discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the runtar
binary within amanda. runtar is a suid binary owned by root that did not
perform adequate sanitization of commandline options and could possibly be
used by a malicious local attacker to escalate privileges. (CVE-2022-37705)

Affected Software/OS:
'amanda' package(s) on Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
6.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-37703
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JYREA6LFXF5M7K4WLNJV5VNQPS4MTBW2/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ATMGMVS3QDN6OMKMHGUTUTU7NS7HR3BZ/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/A5DCLSX5YYTWMKSMDL67M5STZ5ZDSOXK/
http://www.amanda.org/
https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00003.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-37704
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37704
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/issues/192
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/197
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/205
https://marc.info/?l=amanda-hackers
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00025.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-37705
https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37705
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/194
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/196
https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/pull/204
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