ubuntu · CVE-2016-10729

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Priority: medium Published: 2018-10-24 21:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-26 11:53:50 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-10729 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (amanda), 19 status rows across 19 suites (bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 16, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.

Description:

An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. The "runtar" setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after --create, allowing users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root.

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