Out-of-bounds read in Suricata - CVE-2019-10050
Published: May 13, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU35906
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-2019-10050
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Open Information Security Foundation
Affected software:
Suricata
Suricata
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to length of 2 bytes. There is no validation of this length. Later on, the code tries to read at an empty position, leading to a crash. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-10050
Update to version 4.1.4.