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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : amanda vulnerabilities (USN-5966-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 173253

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5966-1 advisory.

 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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected amanda-client, amanda-common and / or amanda-server packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5966-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 173253

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5966-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37705

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:amanda-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37703, CVE-2022-37704, CVE-2022-37705

USN: 5966-1