RHSA-2020:4638 — Security Advisory

An update for sysstat is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.

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: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c (CVE-2019-16167)

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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.