Bug 554490

Summary: aide file integrity checker crippled by prelinker
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: aideAssignee: Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 5.4CC: cww, mpoole, tao
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Description Jeff Bastian 2010-01-11 20:26:16 UTC 
Created attachment 383084 [details]
aide prelink patch

Description of problem:
aide alerts on all changed binaries every time the prelinker re-links the binaries on a system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
aide-0.13.1-4.el5.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. aide --init
2. cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz
3. touch /var/lib/misc/prelink.force
4. /etc/cron.daily/prelink
5. aide --check

Actual results:
aide alerts on innocuous changes to files

Expected results:
no false alarms

Additional info:
There is a patch upstream to fix this:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/aide@cs.tut.fi/msg01410.html

This patch is included in the latest Fedora builds:
  Changelog:
    ...
    * Mon Jun 08 2009 Steve Grubb <sgrubb> - 0.13.1-9
    - Make aide smarter about prelinked files (Peter Vrabec)
    - Add /lib64 to default config
    ...
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=146929
Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-08-09 19:23:34 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.