USN-4242-1: Sysstat vulnerabilities
sysstat vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in Sysstat.
Software Description
- sysstat – system performance tools for Linux
Details
It was discovered that Sysstat incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.04 and Ubuntu 19.10.
(CVE-2019-16167)
It was discovered that Sysstat incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2019-19725)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.10
- sysstat – 12.0.6-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 19.04
- sysstat – 12.0.1-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- sysstat – 11.6.1-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- sysstat – 11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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