SUSE SLES12 Security Update : sysstat (SUSE-SU-2025:0012-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 213488

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:0012-1 advisory.

- CVE-2023-33204: Fixed a multiplication integer overflow in check_overflow in common.c (bsc#1211507)
- CVE-2022-39377: Fixed arithmetic overflow in allocate_structures() (bsc#1205224)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected sysstat and / or sysstat-isag packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 213488

File Name: suse_SU-2025-0012-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/4/2025

Updated: 1/4/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33204

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sysstat, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:sysstat-isag

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39377, CVE-2023-33204

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:0012-1

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