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RHEL 8 : sysstat (RHSA-2022:0633)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 158322

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for sysstat.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:0633 advisory.

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

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL sysstat package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:0633.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?66cb195c

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0633

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1768970

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 158322

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0633.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2022

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-16167

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sysstat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16167

CWE: 190

RHSA: 2022:0633