CVE-1999-1517
First published: Mon Nov 01 1999(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD FreeBSD | =3.3 | |
| =3.3 |
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