OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7 BPF Filter File integer overflow

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A vulnerability was found in OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7. It has been rated as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the component BPF Filter File Handler. Performing a manipulation results in integer overflow. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-55626. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7. This affects an unknown function of the component BPF Filter File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-680. 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. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-55626 since 12/09/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 214272 (Suricata < 7.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.0.8 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (214272) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-52824). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• OISF

Name

• Suricata

Version

• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/

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