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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-202007-22.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202007-22">
<title>sysstat: Arbitrary code execution</title>
<synopsis>A use-after-free in sysstat was discovered which may allow
arbitrary code execution.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">sysstat</product>
<announced>2020-07-27</announced>
<revised count="1">2020-07-27</revised>
<bug>706206</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-admin/sysstat" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">12.2.1</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">12.2.1</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring
utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>A double-free in sysstats check_file_actlst() function was
discovered.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All sysstat users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-admin/sysstat-12.2.1"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19725">CVE-2019-19725</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-07-26T15:01:59Z">sam_c</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-07-27T00:08:31Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>