CVE-2018-19517 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in sysstat 12.1.1. The remap_struct function in sa_common.c has an out-of-bounds read during a memset call, as demonstrated by sadf.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Sysstat Project	Sysstat

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:sysstat_project:sysstat:12.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/sysstat/sysstat/issues/199
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19517
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19517

History

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-11-24T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-15T17:38:39.935Z

Reserved: 2018-11-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-19517

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:37:11.528Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-24T18:29:00.180

Modified: 2026-10-15T18:17:16.957

Link: CVE-2018-19517

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-11-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-19517 - Bugzilla

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