Bug 1652728 (CVE-2018-19416)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19416 sysstat: Out-of-bounds read in remap_struct function in sa_common.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, dbaker, jokerman, kasal, msekleta, sthangav, trankin
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Bug Depends On:	1652729, 1654772
Bug Blocks:	1652730

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 17:43:02 UTC

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.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/196

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-11-22 17:43:25 UTC

Created sysstat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652729]

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-29 16:13:01 UTC

Patch:
https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/commit/fbc691eaaa10d0bcea6741d5a223dc3906106548

Comment 3 Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-29 16:13:13 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of sysstat as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.