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CVE-2024-55626 (GCVE-0-2024-55626)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-06 17:47 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:32
VLAI
Title
Suricata oversized bpf file can lead to buffer overflow
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large BPF filter file provided to Suricata at startup can lead to a buffer overflow at Suricata startup. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-06 19:15 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-680 - Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OISF suricata Affected: < 7.0.8
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