CVE 6.2 MEDIUM

AIDE null pointer dereference when reading incorrectly encoded xattr attributes from database (local DoS)_CVE-2025-54409

6.2 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

AIDE is an advanced intrusion detection environment. From versions 0.13 to 0.19.1, there is a null pointer dereference vulnerability in AIDE. An attacker can crash the program during report printing or database listing after setting extended file attributes with an empty attribute value or with a key containing a comma. A local user might exploit this to cause a local denial of service. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.2. A workaround involves removing xattrs group from rules matching files on affected file systems.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-54409
Source GitHub_M
Published Aug 14, 2025 at 15:52

Affected Product

Vendor aide
Product aide
Version >= 0.13, < 0.19.2
Affected Versions aide aide >= 0.13, < 0.19.2

CWE Classification

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