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Rocky Linux 8 : sysstat (RLSA-2020:4638)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 184985

Synopsis

The remote Rocky Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Rocky Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2020:4638 advisory.

 - sysstat before 12.1.6 has memory corruption due to an Integer Overflow in remap_struct() in sa_common.c.
 (CVE-2019-16167)

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 affected sysstat, sysstat-debuginfo and / or sysstat-debugsource packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4638

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 184985

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2020-4638.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/7/2023

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sysstat-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sysstat, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:sysstat-debuginfo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/3/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16167