USN-5966-3: amanda regression

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• amanda - Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver (Client)

Details

USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately that update
caused a regression and was reverted in USN-5966-2. This update provides
security fixes for Ubuntu 22.10, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory 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 - 1:3.5.1-9ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 22.04

• amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-8ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 20.04

• amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-2ubuntu0.3

Ubuntu 18.04

• amanda-client - 1:3.5.1-1ubuntu0.3

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

References

• CVE-2022-37704
• CVE-2022-37703
• CVE-2022-37705
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/2012536

Related notices

• USN-5966-1: amanda, amanda-server, amanda-client, amanda-common