Out-of-Bounds Affecting sysstat package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-SYSSTAT-1328049
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Nov 2018

Introduced: 21 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 sysstat.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sysstat package and not the sysstat package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in sysstat 12.1.1. The remap_struct function in sa_common.c has an out-of-bounds read during a memset call, as demonstrated by sadf.