Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2218
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-17 11:58 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-08-23 00:18 Pacific
FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity
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. (CVE-2016-10729)
An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. Amstar is an Amanda Application API script. It should not be run by users directly. It uses star to backup and restore data. It runs binaries with root permissions when parsing the command line argument --star-path. (CVE-2016-10730)
AMANDA (Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) before tag-community-3.5.4 mishandles argument checking for runtar.c, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37705. (CVE-2023-30577)
Affected Packages:
amanda
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update amanda to update your system.
aarch64:
amanda-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
amanda-libs-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
amanda-client-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
amanda-server-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
amanda-debuginfo-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
i686:
amanda-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
amanda-libs-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
amanda-client-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
amanda-server-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
amanda-debuginfo-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.i686
src:
amanda-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.src
x86_64:
amanda-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
amanda-libs-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
amanda-client-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
amanda-server-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
amanda-debuginfo-3.3.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64