USN-5735-1: Sysstat vulnerability
22 November 2022
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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
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sysstat
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11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.