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Red Hat 8.2: RHSA-2022:0633-01 Low: Sysstat Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey February 22, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Security alert for Red Hat: Minor sysstat patch tackling memory vulnerabilities. Follow up for further instructions.
An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat memory corruption Ubuntu sysstat Low severity

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16167 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.src.rpm
aarch64: sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0633-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0633
Issue date: 2022-02-22

Topic

An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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 Ubuntu sysstat Low severity

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - 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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