CVE-2025-54409 — AIDE null pointer dereference when reading incorrectly encoded xattr attributes from database (local DoS)
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 d…
Published: 2025-08-14 · CVSS: 6.2 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7