Vulnerability in Freebsd

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (38.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 3.3
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)