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Posted on 16 May 2023
RedHat===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: sysstat security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2800-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2800
Issue date: 2023-05-16
CVE Names: CVE-2022-39377
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1. Summary:
An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
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 Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
2141207 - CVE-2022-39377 sysstat: arithmetic overflow in allocate_structures() on 32 bit systems
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le:
sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
sysstat-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-11.7.3-9.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-39377
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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