CVE-2022-37703
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 13, 2022
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Reserved
- Aug 8, 2022
Description
In Amanda 3.5.1, an information leak vulnerability was found in the calcsize SUID binary. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to know if a directory exists or not anywhere in the fs. The binary will use `opendir()` as root directly without checking the path, letting the attacker provide an arbitrary path.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.amanda.org/
- https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37703
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/870037
- FEDORA-2023-3d0619d767vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-1293196f34vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2023-e295804b3dvendor-advisory
- https://github.com/zmanda/amanda/releases/tag/tag-community-3.5.3
- [debian-lts-announce] 20231203 [SECURITY] [DLA 3681-1] amanda security updatemailing-list
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00023.html
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