Issued:
2010-01-13
Updated:
2010-03-30

RHBA-2010:0036 - aide bug fix update

Synopsis

aide bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated aide package that allows proper operation with the recently updated version of libgcrypt and makes minor man page changes is now available.

Description

Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment (AIDE) is a program that creates a database of files on a system, and then uses that database to ensure file integrity and detect system intrusions.

This updated aide package includes the following fixes:

  • the current version of libcgrypt includes a version-checking initialization step that aide was not doing. Running "aide -i" logged the following message to /var/log/messages:

    aide: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application

With this update, aide now includes the version-checking step required by libgcrypt and the libgcrypt warning is, consequently, no longer written to /var/log/messages. Note: although based on a proposed upstream patch, this update leaves secure memory enabled, unlike the proposed upstream change. (BZ#530485)

  • the FILES section of the aide man page previously listed the locations for aide.conf, aide.db.gz and aide.db.new.gz with a pre-pended "%prefix" variable. The updated aide man page removes this variable, listing the file locations as complete but plain paths (eg "/etc/aide.conf"). (No BZ#)

All aide users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which includes this bug fix and man page change.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.ppc.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.src.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.i386.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.s390x.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-6.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information