CVE-2024-55626

Published: Jan 6, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large BPF filter file provided to Suricata at startup can lead to a buffer overflow at Suricata startup. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.

Affected (1)

Products: Oisf: Suricata

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Oisf Suricata	Before 7.0.8

Related CWEs

Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

The product performs a calculation to determine how much memory to allocate, but an integer overflow can occur that causes less memory to be allocated than expected, leading to a buffer overflow.

References (4)

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/dd71ef0af222a566e54dfc479dd1951dd17d7ceb

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Patch

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-wmg4-jqx5-4h9v

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Vendor Advisory

https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7366

Source: security-advisories@github.com

Permissions Required

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00029.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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