ALAS2-2022-1850

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-45417  

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the base64 functions of AIDE, an advanced intrusion detection system. An attacker could crash the program and possibly execute arbitrary code through large (<16k) extended file attributes or ACL. (CVE-2021-45417)

ALAS2-2022-1850


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1850
Advisory Release Date: 2022-09-15 04:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-09-20 19:11 Pacific
Severity: Important
References: CVE-2021-45417 

Issue Overview:

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the base64 functions of AIDE, an advanced intrusion detection system. An attacker could crash the program and possibly execute arbitrary code through large (<16k) extended file attributes or ACL. (CVE-2021-45417)


Affected Packages:

aide


Issue Correction:
Run yum update aide to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    aide-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    aide-debuginfo-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    aide-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    aide-debuginfo-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.i686

src:
    aide-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    aide-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    aide-debuginfo-0.16.2-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64