CVE-2021-45417
aide: heap-based buffer overflow on outputs larger than B64_BUF
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Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · January 20, 2022
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write