CVE
- Id
- 1497
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1517
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- 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.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- MODIFY(1) Frech | NOOP(3) Cole, Foat, Wall
- Comments
- Frech> XF:amanda-runtar(3402)