March 23, 2023, 2:28 p.m. |

Ubuntu security notices ubuntu.com

USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately it introduced
a regression in GNUTAR-based backups. This update reverts all of the
changes in amanda until a better fix is provided.

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 …

advisory amanda backups binary cve disclosure file system fix information information disclosure local malicious root system update usn vulnerabilities vulnerability

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