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

Ubuntu 19.04

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

To update your system, please follow these instructions: