CVE-2025-54409 – “AIDE Null Pointer Dereference Vulnerability”

CVE ID : CVE-2025-54409

Published : Aug. 14, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 21 minutes ago

Description : 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

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