NULL pointer dereference in AIDE - CVE-2025-54409

Vulnerability identifier: #VU114476

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2025-54409

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error. A remote 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.

AIDE
Debian Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
aide (Ubuntu package)
aide (Debian package)
aide
aide-debuginfo
aide-debugsource
aide-help

Install update from vendor's website.

AIDE - update to 0.19.2
aide (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 0.16~a2.git20130520-2ubuntu0.1+esm2, 0.16~a2.git20130520-3ubuntu0.1~esm2, 0.16.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm1, 0.16-3ubuntu0.1+esm1, 0.17.4-1ubuntu0.2, 0.18.6-2ubuntu0.1, 0.18.8-2ubuntu0.1
aide (Debian package) - addressed in versions 0.18.3-1+deb12u4, 0.19.1-2+deb13u1
aide - update to 0.18.6-7
aide-debuginfo - update to 0.18.6-7
aide-debugsource - update to 0.18.6-7
aide-help - update to 0.18.6-7

• https://github.com/aide/aide/commit/54a6d0d9d5f14b81961d66373c0291bf4af4135a
• https://github.com/aide/aide/releases/tag/v0.19.2
• https://github.com/aide/aide/security/advisories/GHSA-79g7-f8rv-jcxh

• Multiple vulnerabilities in AIDE
• Debian update for aide
• Ubuntu update for aide
• openEuler 24.03 LTS update for aide