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CVE-2024-55605: Suricata allows stack overflow in transforms

7.5 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-55605

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

Affected Products

Vendor: OISF

Product: suricata

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.48% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x2hr-33vp-w289
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7229

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