fkie_cve-2025-29917
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-04-10 21:15
Modified
2025-05-29 15:48
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and setting can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9pxVendor Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613Permissions Required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
oisf suricata *


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