Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and setting can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.
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Description | Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and setting can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9. | |
Title | Suricata decode_base64: signature can do large memory allocation | |
Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2025-04-10T21:00:05.924Z
Updated: 2025-04-11T16:03:53.438Z
Reserved: 2025-03-12T13:42:22.135Z
Link: CVE-2025-29917

Updated: 2025-04-11T15:56:35.736Z

Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2025-04-10T21:15:48.880
Modified: 2025-04-11T15:39:52.920
Link: CVE-2025-29917

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