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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-4638-01 Low: Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new enhancement for sysstat has been released to resolve minor memory corruption issues on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, corresponding to advisory RHSA-2020-4638-01.
An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The sysstat packages provide the sar and iostat commands. These commands enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other I/O activity.
Security Fix(es):
* sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c (CVE-2019-16167)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat memory corruption low impact sysstat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16167 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-5.el8.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8.s390x.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-5.el8.s390x.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-5.el8.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4638-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4638
Issue date: 2020-11-03

Topic

An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update red hat memory corruption low impact sysstat

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1768970 - CVE-2019-16167 sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c

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