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)