CVE-1999-1517

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 25 years ago

1999-11-01 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:05:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 3.3

3.3

References

19991101 Amanda multiple vendor local root compromises

750

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