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
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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