Multiple vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or overwrite arbitrary files
Package | app-admin/sysstat on the x86 ppc sparc amd64 architecture |
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Affected versions | < 5.0.2 |
Unaffected versions | >= 5.0.2 |
sysstat is a package containing a number of performance monitoring utilities for Linux, including sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools
There are two vulnerabilities in the way sysstat handles symlinks:
Both vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files under the permissions of the user executing any of the affected utilities.
A workaround is not currently known for this issue. All users are advised to upgrade to the latest version of the affected package.
Systat users should upgrade to version 4.2 or later:
# emerge sync # emerge -pv ">=app-admin/sysstat-5.0.2" # emerge ">=app-admin/sysstat-5.0.2"
Release date
April 06, 2004
Latest revision
April 06, 2004: 01
Severity
normal
Exploitable
local
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