Vulnerability · Published Jan 6, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2024-55605Suricata allows stack overflow in transforms
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in suricata from OISF. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.7% (higher than 53% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large input buffer to the to_lowercase, to_uppercase, strip_whitespace, compress_whitespace, dotprefix, header_lowercase, strip_pseudo_headers, url_decode, or xor transform can lead to a stack overflow causing Suricata to crash. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.21 | suricata | 7.0.8-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | suricata | 7.0.8-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | suricata | 7.0.8-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | suricata | 7.0.8-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Debian:13 | suricata | 1:7.0.8-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Debian:14 | suricata | 1:7.0.8-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | suricata | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55605 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | suricata | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-55605 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x2hr-33vp-w289 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7229 x_refsource_MISC