USN-5243-1: AIDE vulnerability
20 January 2022
AIDE could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it opened a specially crafted file.
Releases
Packages
- 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.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.