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RHEL 8 : sysstat (RHSA-2020:4638)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142381

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for sysstat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4638 advisory.

 The sysstat packages provide the sar and iostat commands. These commands enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other I/O activity.

 Security Fix(es):

 * sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c (CVE-2019-16167)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL sysstat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:4638.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?44b830f6

http://www.nessus.org/u?fba5903e

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4638

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768970

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142381

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4638.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sysstat, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16167

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2020:4638