1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-5735-1

USN-5735-1: Sysstat vulnerability

Publication date

22 November 2022

Overview

Sysstat could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed specially crafted input.

Releases

Packages

  • sysstat - system performance tools for Linux

Details

It was discovered that Sysstat did not properly check bounds
when perfoming certain arithmetic operations on 32 bit systems.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
arbitrary code execution.

It was discovered that Sysstat did not properly check bounds
when perfoming certain arithmetic operations on 32 bit systems.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
arbitrary code execution.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial sysstat –  11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1  

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