Bug 1768970 (CVE-2019-16167)
| Summary: | CVE-2019-16167 sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | kasal, mcascell, msekleta, rskvaril |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | sysstat 12.1.6 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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An integer overflow vulnerability was found in sysstat in the way the `sadf` command processes the contents of data files created by the `sar` command. A local attacker could exploit this flaw by creating a specially crafted file with malformed data that, when loaded by a victim, causes the application to crash.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-11-04 02:22:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1768971, 1790608, 2046688 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1768972 | ||
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Description
Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
2019-11-05 17:01:54 UTC
Created sysstat tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1768971] Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of sysstat as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable function, which was introduced in a newer version of the package. The vulnerable function remap_struct() is used to map structures containing statistics from two different sysstat versions. This function was introduced upstream in version v11.7.1 with the following commit: https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/commit/65ac30359e49ee717397e39950d7c24a6610d57c This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-16167 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2020:4638 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4638 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2022:0633 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0633 |