Advisories » MGASA-2022-0433

Updated sysstat packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 18 Nov 2022
Modification date: 18 Nov 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-39377

Description

On 32 bit systems, in versions 9.1.16 and newer but prior to 12.7.1,
allocate_structures contains a size_t overflow in sa_common.c. The
allocate_structures function insufficiently checks bounds before
arithmetic multiplication, allowing for an overflow in the size allocated
for the buffer representing system activities. This issue may lead to
Remote Code Execution (RCE). (CVE-2022-39377)
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31120
• https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3188
• http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/
• https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/security/advisories/GHSA-q8r6-g56f-9w7x
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-39377

SRPMS

8/core

• sysstat-12.5.2-1.1.mga8