CVE-1999-1517

CVE-1999-1517 concerns runtar in the Amanda backup system on UNIX-like OSes. The vulnerable component runs tar with root privileges, enabling a local attacker to overwrite or read arbitrary files by specifying target files to runtar. The CVSS-based notes indicate local access, no authentication, ...

CVE-1999-1517

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...