Bug 1768970 (CVE-2019-16167) - CVE-2019-16167 sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c
Summary: CVE-2019-16167 sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-16167
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: 1768971 1790608 2046688
Blocks: 1768972
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Reported: 2019-11-05 17:01 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2022-02-22 15:14 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: sysstat 12.1.6
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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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Last Closed: 2020-11-04 02:22:52 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:4638 0 None None None 2020-11-04 02:34:29 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:0633 0 None None None 2022-02-22 15:14:23 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-05 17:01:54 UTC 
sysstat before 12.1.6 has memory corruption due to an Integer Overflow in remap_struct() in sa_common.c.

Reference:
https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/230

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/commit/edbf507678bf10914e9804ff8a06737fdcb2e781
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2019-11-05 17:02:06 UTC 
Created sysstat tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1768971]
Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2020-01-13 16:01:15 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with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7 as they did not include the vulnerable function, which was introduced in a newer version of the package.
Comment 3 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2020-01-13 16:22:25 UTC 
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
Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-11-04 02:22:52 UTC 
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
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2020-11-04 02:34:29 UTC 
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
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2022-02-22 15:14:21 UTC 
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
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