Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sysstat  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-SYSSTAT-531874
  • published2 Dec 2018
  • disclosed24 Nov 2018

Introduced: 24 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19517  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sysstat package and not the sysstat package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.