Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in runtar of Amanda Backup System

CVE-1999-1517 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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