Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting suricata package, versions [,6.0.20)[7.0.0-beta1,7.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.83% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-7448457
  • published14 Jul 2024
  • disclosed11 Jul 2024
  • creditOSS-Fuzz

Introduced: 11 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-38535  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 6.0.20, 7.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling when handling HTTP/2 headers. An attacker can exhaust available memory by sending data with duplicate headers.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be avoided by disabling the HTTP/2 parser.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1