vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-45417: Important: aide security update (ALSA-2022-0441)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 20, 2022
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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.

Solution

alma-upgrade-aide
Title
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