CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1517

Published: Nov 01, 1999 | Modified: Oct 18, 2016

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.2 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1517
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

runtar in the Amanda backup system used in various UNIX operating systems executes tar with root privileges, which allows a user to overwrite or read arbitrary files by providing the target files to runtar.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Freebsd	Freebsd	3.3 (including)	3.3 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=94148942818975\u0026w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/750

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