OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7 DNS Message amplification

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component DNS Message Handler. Such manipulation leads to amplification. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-55628. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in OISF Suricata up to 7.0.7. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component DNS Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a amplification vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-405. The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric." Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.8, DNS resource name compression can lead to small DNS messages containing very large hostnames which can be costly to decode, and lead to very large DNS log records. While there are limits in place, they were too generous. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-55628 since 12/09/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 7.0.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 19cf0f81335d9f787d587450f7105ad95a648951 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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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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