Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Aug 14, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2025-54409
CVE-2025-54409
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.
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Affected products
6- cpe:2.3:a:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment_project:advanced_intrusion_detection_environment:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Range: >=0.13,<0.19.2
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/suse/aide&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.0pkg:rpm/suse/aide&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Micro%206.1pkg:rpm/opensuse/aide&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 0.18.6-2.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.18.6-2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.18.6-slfo.1.1_2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.19.2-1.1
Patches
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References
5- github.com/aide/aide/commit/54a6d0d9d5f14b81961d66373c0291bf4af4135anvdPatch
- github.com/aide/aide/security/advisories/GHSA-79g7-f8rv-jcxhnvdExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
- github.com/aide/aide/releases/tag/v0.19.2nvdRelease Notes
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/14/8nvd
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00011.htmlnvd
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