NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-7448456
  • published14 Jul 2024
  • disclosed11 Jul 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-38536  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference when the non-default http.memcap is in use and the http.memcap limit is reached. An attacker can cause a crash by sending malicious data that misallocates memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1