Stack-based buffer overflow in Suricata - CVE-2024-55605
Published: January 10, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU102518
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-55605
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in multiple transforms. A remote attacker can send very large packets to the application, trigger a stack-based buffer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Below is the list of affected transforms:
- to_lowercase
- to_uppercase
- strip_whitespace
- compress_whitespace
- dotprefix
- header_lowercase
- strip_pseudo_headers
- url_decode
- xor
Affected software
Suricata
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack
Fedora
suricata
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack
Fedora
suricata
How to mitigate CVE-2024-55605
Install updates from vendor's website.
Suricata - update to 7.0.8
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack - addressed in versions 6.0.4, 7.0.3
suricata - addressed in versions 7.0.8-1.el8, 7.0.8-1.el9, 7.0.8-1.fc40, 7.0.8-1.fc41
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack - addressed in versions 6.0.4, 7.0.3
suricata - addressed in versions 7.0.8-1.el8, 7.0.8-1.el9, 7.0.8-1.fc40, 7.0.8-1.fc41