An amanda security update has been released for Ubuntu Linux 14.04 ESM, 16.04 ESM, 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS, 22.04 LTS, and 22.10.

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5966-1
March 23, 2023

amanda vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.10
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in amanda.

Software Description:
- amanda: Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)

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)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10:
amanda-client 1:3.5.1-9ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
amanda-client 1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
amanda-client 1:3.5.1-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
amanda-client 1:3.5.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
amanda-client 1:3.3.6-4.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
amanda-client 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu1.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5966-1
CVE-2022-37703, CVE-2022-37704, CVE-2022-37705

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amanda/1:3.5.1-9ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amanda/1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amanda/1:3.5.1-2ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/amanda/1:3.5.1-1ubuntu0.1