CVE-2025-54409 (GCVE-0-2025-54409)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-14 15:52 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:12
VLAI?
Title
AIDE null pointer dereference when reading incorrectly encoded xattr attributes from database (local DoS)
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
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Nomenclature
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