Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:1119 - aide bug fix update

Synopsis

aide bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated aide packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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 update fixes the following bugs:

  • The help output of the aide executable did not mention the "-D" option which is a shortcut for "--config-check". The option could only be found on the aide(1) man page. With this update, the "-D" option is mentioned in both the help output and on the man page. (BZ#547658)

  • Previously, the aide utility incorrectly initialized the gcrypt library. This consequently prevented aide to initialize its database if the system was running in FIPS-compliant mode. The initialization routine has been corrected, and along with an extension to the libgcrypt's API introduced in the RHEA-2012:0484 advisory, aide now initializes its database as expected if run in a FIPS-compliant way. (BZ#553137)

  • The compare_dbline() function returned an "int" value, even though the function can operate with variables of size larger than "int" (for example, DB_SELINUX, DB_XATTRS or DB_WHIRPOOL). As a consequence, aide could produce incorrect results when checking a database for inconsistencies. The underlying source code has been modified so that the compare_dbline() function now returns an "unsigned long long" value, and aide correctly detects and reports database inconsistencies. (BZ#580253)

All users of aide are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

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-debuginfo-0.13.1-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.src.rpm
  • aide-debuginfo-0.13.1-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • aide-debuginfo-0.13.1-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.s390x.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • aide-debuginfo-0.13.1-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.i386.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.ppc.rpm
  • aide-0.13.1-8.el5.ia64.rpm
  • aide-debuginfo-0.13.1-8.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information