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.
Published: 2022-09-13
Score: 3.3 Low
EPSS: 2.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3681-1 amanda security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3880-1 amanda security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-40317 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5966-1 amanda vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5966-3 amanda regression
History

Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:30:00 +0000

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References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-04T16:09:48.244Z

Reserved: 2022-08-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-37703

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-13T20:15:09.793

Modified: 2025-11-04T16:15:50.443

Link: CVE-2022-37703

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2022-09-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-37703 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses