Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.9)
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- published24 Apr 2025
- disclosed10 Apr 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 10 Apr 2025
NewCVE-2025-29917 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.9 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword not being properly limited. An attacker can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread by utilizing signatures that use this keyword and setting.