CVE-2016-10729

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10729
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10729.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10729
Downstream
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Published
2018-10-24T21:29:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:28Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

An issue was discovered in Amanda 3.3.1. A user with backup privileges can trivially compromise a client installation. The "runtar" setuid root binary does not check for additional arguments supplied after --create, allowing users to manipulate commands and perform command injection as root.

References

Affected packages