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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities that have been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - sysstat: Out-of-bounds read in remap_struct function in sa_common.c (CVE-2018-19416)

  - 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. (CVE-2018-19517)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

This update for sysstat fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

CVE-2018-19416: Fixed out-of-bounds read during a memmove call inside the remap_struct function (bsc#1117001).

CVE-2018-19517: Fixed out-of-bounds read during a memset call inside the remap_struct function (bsc#1117260).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for sysstat fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-19416: Fixed out-of-bounds read during a     memmove call inside the remap_struct function     (bsc#1117001).

  - CVE-2018-19517: Fixed out-of-bounds read during a memset     call inside the remap_struct function (bsc#1117260).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199083	RHEL 8 : sysstat (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
125458	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : sysstat (SUSE-SU-2019:1326-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123921	openSUSE Security Update : sysstat (openSUSE-2019-1176)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
123550	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : sysstat (SUSE-SU-2019:0806-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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