Fedora 37 update for sysstat



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2023-33204
CWE-ID CWE-190
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 Fedora
Operating systems & Components / Operating system

sysstat
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Fedoraproject

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Integer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU77081

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-33204

CWE-ID: CWE-190 - Integer overflow

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow within the check_overflow() function in common.c. A remote attacker can trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU69196 (CVE-2022-39377).

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's repository.

Vulnerable software versions

Fedora: 37

sysstat: before 12.6.2-2.fc37

CPE2.3 External links

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-4706cef256


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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