Out-of-bounds read in Suricata - CVE-2019-16410
Published: September 24, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35479
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16410
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.
An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.4. By sending multiple fragmented IPv4 packets, the function Defrag4Reassemble in defrag.c tries to access a memory region that is not allocated, because of a lack of header_len checking.
Affected software
Suricata
How to mitigate CVE-2019-16410
Install update from vendor's website.