Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1850
Advisory Release Date: 2022-09-15 04:55 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-10-10 21:54 Pacific
Severity:
Important
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
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
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