Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in 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. A local user might exploit this flaw for root privilege escalation.

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The default aide.conf file in Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) before 0.71 on FreeBSD before 2002-08-28 does not properly check subdirectories, which could allow local users to bypass detection.

First published (updated )

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