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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2023-2800-01 Moderate Sysstat Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released advisory RHSA-2023-2900-01 regarding an issue in libxml2 that presents a moderate security vulnerability stemming from a memory corruption flaw.
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: arithmetic overflow in allocate_structures() on 32 bit systems (CVE-2022-39377)
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 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity sysstat arithmetic overflow

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39377 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2800-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2800
Issue date: 2023-05-16

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 Moderate. 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity sysstat arithmetic overflow

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2141207 - CVE-2022-39377 sysstat: arithmetic overflow in allocate_structures() on 32 bit systems

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