CVE-2021-45417

HIGH7.8EPSS 0.04%

aide - security update

Published: 1/20/2022Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-5051-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-45417DLA-2894-1

Description

AIDE before 0.17.4 allows local users to obtain root privileges via crafted file metadata (such as XFS extended attributes or tmpfs ACLs), because of a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected packages (3)

Debian/aidefrom 0, < 0.17.3-4+deb11u1
Debian/aidefrom 0, < 0.16-1+deb9u1
Debian/aidefrom 0, < 0.16.1-1+deb10u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-45417