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Medium ALAS2023-2023-094 1 CVE

Moderate: sysstat security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-39377: 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.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 sysstat 0:12.5.6-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 sysstat-debuginfo 0:12.5.6-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 sysstat-debugsource 0:12.5.6-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.0
    CVE-2022-39377

    sysstat Incorrect Buffer Size calculation on 32-bit systems results in RCE via buffer overflow

    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 ch…

    sysstat sysstat sysstat sysstat Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-39377.html