Integer overflow in sysstat - CVE-2019-16167

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Integer overflow in sysstat - CVE-2019-16167

Published: September 9, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU30790
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16167
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
sysstat
Software vendor:
GODARD Sebastien

Description

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

sysstat before 12.1.6 has memory corruption due to an Integer Overflow in remap_struct() in sa_common.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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