Out-of-bounds Write Affecting sysstat/sysstat package, versions [,12.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.53% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSSTATSYSSTAT-2365459
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Sept 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sysstat/sysstat to version 12.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write sysstat before 12.1.6 has memory corruption due to an Integer Overflow in remap_struct() in sa_common.c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1