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Alpine: multiple sysstat packages: security update to 12.6.2-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 426666

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - sysstat is a set of system performance tools for the Linux operating system. 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). This issue has been patched in version
 12.7.1. (CVE-2022-39377)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-39377

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 426666

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-39377

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-39377