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CentOS 9 : sysstat-12.5.4-2.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191274

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for sysstat.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the sysstat-12.5.4-2.el9 build changelog.

 - sysstat before 12.1.6 has 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 CentOS 9 Stream sysstat package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=13111

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191274

File Name: centos9_sysstat-12_5_4-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:sysstat

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16167