Ubuntu 21.10: USN-5245-1 AIDE Remote Exploit Vulnerability Alert

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January 20, 2022

AIDE could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

AIDE could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it

opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- aide: Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

Details:

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.

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service aide software update ubuntu

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 21.10:
  aide                            0.17.3-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 21.04:
  aide                            0.17.3-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  aide                            0.16.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  aide                            0.16-3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.