Amazon Linux 2 : amanda (ALAS-2023-2218)

high Nessus Plugin ID 180092

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of amanda installed on the remote host is prior to 3.3.9-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2218 advisory.

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)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update amanda' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 180092

File Name: al2_ALAS-2023-2218.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/23/2023

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10730

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-30577

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amanda-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amanda, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amanda-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amanda-client, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:amanda-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/24/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10729, CVE-2016-10730, CVE-2023-30577

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