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Medium ALSA-2023:2234 1 CVE

Moderate: sysstat security and bug fix update

Published May 9, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Ecosystem: AlmaLinux

Summary

The sysstat packages provide the sar and iostat commands. These commands enable system monitoring of disk, network, and other I/O activity.

Security Fix(es):

* sysstat: arithmetic overflow in allocate_structures() on 32 bit systems (CVE-2022-39377)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 sysstat 12.5.4-5.el9

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

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39377
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2141207
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2234.html