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A sysstat security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.



RHSA-2023:2234-01: Moderate: sysstat security and bug fix update



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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: sysstat security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2234-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2234
Issue date: 2023-05-09
CVE Names: CVE-2022-39377
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1. Summary:

An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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. 9) - 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 9.2 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. 9):

Source:
sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9.src.rpm

aarch64:
sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-12.5.4-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-12.5.4-5.el9.aarch64.rpm

ppc64le:
sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-12.5.4-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-12.5.4-5.el9.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9.s390x.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-12.5.4-5.el9.s390x.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-12.5.4-5.el9.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
sysstat-12.5.4-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
sysstat-debuginfo-12.5.4-5.el9.x86_64.rpm
sysstat-debugsource-12.5.4-5.el9.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/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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