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CVE-2019-16167

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

sysstat before 12.1.6 has memory corruption due to an Integer Overflow in remap_struct() in sa_common.c.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1
• Sysstat Project Sysstat: before 12.1.6 — fixed in 12.1.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sysstat Project Sysstat 12.1.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00067.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00068.html
• https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/compare/v12.1.5...v12.1.6
• https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/230
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00014.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVSMKUPWIGQYX4G5LZXL7ZBJN3KY6RM3/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4242-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00067.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00068.html
• https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/compare/v12.1.5...v12.1.6
• https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/230
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00014.html

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