Out-of-bounds Read Affecting sysstat/sysstat package, versions [0,12.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSSTATSYSSTAT-2365461
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed21 Nov 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-19416  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade sysstat/sysstat to version 12.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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 memmove call, as demonstrated by sadf.

CVSS Base Scores

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