Buffer overflow in Suricata - CVE-2019-10054

 

Buffer overflow in Suricata - CVE-2019-10054

Published: August 28, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35585
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10054
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Open Information Security Foundation
Affected software:
Suricata

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.3. The function process_reply_record_v3 lacks a check for the length of reply.data. It causes an invalid memory access and the program crashes within the nfs/nfs3.rs file.


How to mitigate CVE-2019-10054

Install update from vendor's website.

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