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RedHat: RHSA-2022:0440 Important: Aide Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey February 7, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial assistance patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support tackling severe memory overspill.
An update for aide is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory aide Red Hat buffer overflow important system integrity security impact

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-45417 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4):
Source: aide-0.16-14.el8_4.1.src.rpm
aarch64: aide-0.16-14.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.16-14.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm aide-debugsource-0.16-14.el8_4.1.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: aide-0.16-14.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.16-14.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm aide-debugsource-0.16-14.el8_4.1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: aide-0.16-14.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.16-14.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm aide-debugsource-0.16-14.el8_4.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: aide-0.16-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm aide-debuginfo-0.16-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm aide-debugsource-0.16-14.el8_4.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0440-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0440
Issue date: 2022-02-07

Topic

An update for aide is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4Extended Update Support.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory aide Red Hat buffer overflow important system integrity security impact

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2041489 - CVE-2021-45417 aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF

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