Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting suricata package, versions <7.0.8-r0
Threat Intelligence
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- published10 Feb 2025
- disclosed6 Jan 2025
Introduced: 6 Jan 2025
CVE-2024-55627 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.21 suricata to version 7.0.8-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream suricata package and not the suricata package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.21 relevant fixed versions and status.
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a specially crafted TCP stream can lead to a very large buffer overflow while being zero-filled during initialization with memset due to an unsigned integer underflow. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/282509f70c4ce805098e59535af445362e3e9ebd
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/8900041405dbb5f9584edae994af2100733fb4be
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9a53ec43b13f0039a083950511a18bf6f408e432
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-h2mv-7gg8-8x7v
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7393