A vulnerability has been discovered in sysstat, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to escalate their privileges.

The problem is that the isag utility creates temporary files with predictable names, which can be exploited via symlink attacks.

The vulnerability affects versions prior to 5.0.2.

Solution
Update to version 5.0.2.
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