Resource exhaustion in Suricata - CVE-2024-23836

 

Resource exhaustion in Suricata - CVE-2024-23836

Published: March 26, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87827
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-2024-23836
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Suricata
Fedora
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack
suricata

How to mitigate CVE-2024-23836

Install updates from vendor's website.

Suricata - addressed in versions 6.0.16, 7.0.3
Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack - update to 6.0.2
suricata - addressed in versions 6.0.16-1.el8, 6.0.16-1.el9, 6.0.16-1.fc38, 6.0.16-1.fc39

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