CVE-1999-1517: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 3.3 only

Published 1999-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.