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Unscored USN-5243-1 1 CVE

aide vulnerability

Published Jan 20, 2022 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

David Bouman discovered that AIDE incorrectly handled base64 operations. A
local attacker could use this issue to cause AIDE to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS aide 0.16-3ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS aide 0.16.1-1ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2021-45417

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

    aide aide Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-45417