Bug 1679544 (CVE-2018-19517) - CVE-2018-19517 sysstat: Out of bounds read in remap_struct function in sa_common.c
Summary: CVE-2018-19517 sysstat: Out of bounds read in remap_struct function in sa_com...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-19517
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1679545 1686622
Blocks: 1679546
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Reported: 2019-02-21 11:49 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-10-27 03:25 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: sysstat 12.1.2
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Last Closed: 2021-10-27 03:25:43 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2019-02-21 11:49:57 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 memset call, as demonstrated by sadf.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/199

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/commit/fbc691eaaa10d0bcea6741d5a223dc3906106548
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2019-02-21 11:50:06 UTC 
Created sysstat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1679545]
Comment 2 Riccardo Schirone 2019-03-07 21:14:07 UTC 
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 newer version of the package.
Comment 3 Riccardo Schirone 2019-03-07 21:17:23 UTC 
The vulnerable function, remap_struct, was introduced upstream with the following commit in version v11.7.1:
https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/commit/65ac30359e49ee717397e39950d7c24a6610d57c
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