Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.8)
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- published7 Jan 2025
- disclosed6 Jan 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 6 Jan 2025
NewCVE-2024-55628 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.8 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) due to the DNS resource name compression process. An attacker can cause resource starvation by sending crafted DNS messages that contain very large hostnames, which are costly to decode and result in large DNS log records.