Amazon Linux 2 : aide (ALAS-2022-1850)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165998

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of aide installed on the remote host is prior to 0.16.2-1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1850 advisory.

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. (CVE-2021-45417)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update aide' to update your system.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165998

File Name: al2_ALAS-2022-1850.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Amazon Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/11/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45417

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:aide-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:aide

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45417

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