PT-2018-4895 · Zmanda+1 · Amanda+1

Hacker Fantastic · Published 2018-10-24 · Updated 2019-01-09 · CVE-2016-10729

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Amanda version 3.3.1

Description An issue in Amanda allows a user with backup privileges to compromise a client installation. The runtar setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after --create, enabling users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root.

Recommendations For Amanda version 3.3.1, consider restricting the use of the runtar setuid root binary until a patch is available to prevent command injection. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10729

OPENSUSE-SU-2018_3804-1

SUSE-SU-2018:4121-1

SUSE-SU-2018_4121-1

Affected Products

Amanda

Suse

References · 12

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/39217 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:4121-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10729 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10729 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1112916 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10729 · Note
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20184121-1 · Note