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High ALSA-2022:0441 1 CVE

Important: aide security update

Published Feb 7, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) is a utility that creates a database of files on the system, and then uses that database to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.

Security Fix(es):

* aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF (CVE-2021-45417)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 8 aide 0.16-14.el8_5.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —

    AIDE before 0.17.4 allows local users to obtain root privileges via crafted file metadata (such as XFS extended attribu…

References

  • report
    https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2021-45417