Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting suricata package, versions [,6.0.17)[7.0.0,7.0.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-6591320
  • published8 Apr 2024
  • disclosed3 Apr 2024
  • creditoss-Fuzz

Introduced: 3 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-28870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 6.0.17, 7.0.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling when parsing an overly long SSH banner. An attacker can cause the application to consume excessive CPU resources and generate a large volume of alert logs by sending specially crafted SSH traffic.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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