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CVE-2019-16167

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-16167 is a memory corruption vulnerability caused by an integer overflow in the remap_struct() function within sysstat before version 12.1.6, affecting various Linux distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, and openSUSE. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) requires local access and user interaction (UI:R) to exploit, potentially leading to a high impact on availability (A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sysstat_project:sysstat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0153 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 5,758 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: sysstat-0:11.7.3-5.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: sysstat-0:11.7.3-2.el8_2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-16167Low

sysstat: memory corruption due to an integer overflow in remap_struct in sa_common.c

Aug 3, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00067.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00068.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
github.com / sysstat/sysstat/compare/v12.1.5...v12.1.6
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / sysstat/sysstat/issues/230
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00014.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RVSMKUPWIGQYX4G5LZXL7ZBJN3KY6RM3
usn.ubuntu.com / 4242-1
Third Party Advisory