Issued:
2022-02-22
Updated:
2022-02-22

RHSA-2022:0633 - Low: sysstat security update

Synopsis

Low: sysstat security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

Topic

An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The sysstat packages provide the sar and iostat commands. These commands enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other I/O activity.

Security Fix(es):

  • sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c (CVE-2019-16167)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support8.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support8.2ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support8.2s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support8.2aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions8.2ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS8.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS8.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
  • sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
  • sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.src.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm
  • sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
  • sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
  • sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.ppc64le.rpm
  • sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.s390x.rpm
  • sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.x86_64.rpm
  • sysstat-11.7.3-2.el8_2.1.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information