USN-5735-1

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / sysstat

Package

Name: sysstat
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/sysstat@11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1

Affected versions

11.*

11.1.5-1

11.1.7-1

11.1.8-1

11.2.0-1

11.2.0-1ubuntu0.1

11.2.0-1ubuntu0.2

11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "isag",
            "binary_version": "11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "sysstat",
            "binary_version": "11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "sysstat-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "11.2.0-1ubuntu0.3+esm1"
        }
    ]
}