CVE-2022-37703 (GCVE-0-2022-37703)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-13 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
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Summary
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.
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