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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-04-10T21:00:05.924Z

Last Modified :

2025-04-11T16:03:53.438Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-29917 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Oisf
  • Suricata
REFERENCES

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https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px cve-icon cve-icon
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613 cve-icon cve-icon
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