{"id":"CVE-2025-54409","summary":"AIDE null pointer dereference when reading incorrectly encoded xattr attributes from database (local DoS)","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-79g7-f8rv-jcxh"],"modified":"2026-04-16T04:38:22.053922276Z","published":"2025-08-14T15:52:24.069Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2025:20657-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20754-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:15474-1"],"database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-476"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54409.json","cna_assigner":"GitHub_M"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/14/8"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/aide/aide/releases/tag/v0.19.2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00011.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54409.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/aide/aide/security/advisories/GHSA-79g7-f8rv-jcxh"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54409"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/aide/aide/commit/54a6d0d9d5f14b81961d66373c0291bf4af4135a"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/aide/aide","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"09bfeb7f91dacd9834f458f5712dfeac2606fc85"}]}],"versions":["aide.0.10.release","aide.0.11.rc1.release","aide.0.11.rc2.release","aide.0.11.rc3.release","aide.0.11.release","aide.0.11a.debian","aide.0.11b.nocurl","aide.0.12.rc1.release","aide.0.12.rc2.release","aide.0.12.release","aide.0.13.1.release","aide.0.13.rc1.release","aide.0.13.rc2.release","aide.0.13.release","aide.0.14.1.release","aide.0.14.2.release","aide.0.14.rc1.release","aide.0.14.rc2.release","aide.0.14.rc3.release","aide.0.14.release","aide.0.15.1.release","aide.0.15.rc1.release","aide.0.15.release","cs.tut.fi.import","v0.16","v0.16.1","v0.16.2","v0.16a1","v0.16a2","v0.16b1","v0.16rc1","v0.17","v0.17.1","v0.17.2","v0.17.3","v0.18","v0.19","v0.19.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-54409.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}