Suricata up to 6.0.15/7.0.2 allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Suricata up to 6.0.15/7.0.2. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. The manipulation results in allocation of resources. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-23836. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Suricata up to 6.0.15/7.0.2. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to versions 6.0.16 and 7.0.3, an attacker can craft traffic to cause Suricata to use far more CPU and memory for processing the traffic than needed, which can lead to extreme slow downs and denial of service. This vulnerability is patched in 6.0.16 or 7.0.3. Workarounds include disabling the affected protocol app-layer parser in the yaml and reducing the `stream.reassembly.depth` value helps reduce the severity of the issue.

The weakness was published 02/26/2024. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-23836 since 01/22/2024. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 6.0.16 or 7.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Suricata

Version

• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.0.10
• 6.0.11
• 6.0.12
• 6.0.13
• 6.0.14
• 6.0.15
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2

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• open-source

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