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29 The Amanda development team confirms the existence of the amrecover security
30 hole in recent versions of Amanda. We have made a new release, Amanda 2.4.0b5,
31 that fixes the amrecover problem and other potential security holes, and is the
32 product of a security audit conducted in conjunction with the OpenBSD effort.
33 The new version is available at:
34 ftp://ftp.amanda.org/pub/amanda/amanda-2.4.0b5.tar.gz
35 Here's some more information about the amrecover problem to supplement the
36 information given in the CPIO Security Notice:
40 The Amanda 2.3.0.x interim releases that introduced amrecover, and the 2.4.0
41 beta releases by the Amanda team are vulnerable.
42 Amanda 2.3.0 and earlier UMD releases are not affected by this particular bug,
43 as amrecover was not part of those releases. However, earlier releases do have
44 potential security problems and other bugs, so the Amanda Team recommends
45 upgrading to the new release as soon as practicable.
49 At an active site running Amanda 2.3.0.x or 2.4.0 beta, amrecover/ amindexd can
52 * removing amandaidx and amidxtape from /etc/inetd.conf
55 * restarting /etc/inetd.conf (kill -HUP should do)
57 This will avoid this particular vulnerability while continuing to run backups.
58 However, other vulnerabilities might exist, so the Amanda Team recommends
59 upgrading to the new release as soon as practicable.
63 This release (2.4.0) has addressed a number of security concerns with the
64 assistance of Theo de Raadt, Ejovi Nuwere and David Sacerdote of the OpenBSD
65 project. Thanks guys! Any problems that remain are our own fault, of course.
66 The Amanda Team would also like to thank the many other people who have
67 contributed suggestions, patches, and new subsystems for Amanda. We're grateful
68 for any contribution that helps us achieve and sustain critical mass for
73 Refer to http://www.amanda.org/docs/security.html for the current version of
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