Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5966-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5966-1 - 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. 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 …

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