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CVE-1999-1517

HIGH CVSS: 7.2 Published: 1999-11-01 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References