CVE-2025-29917

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The bytes setting in the decode_base64 keyword is not properly limited. Due to this, signatures using the keyword and setting can cause large memory allocations of up to 4 GiB per thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-03-12 | Published 2025-04-10 | Updated 2025-04-11 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

References

github.com/...ricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px

github.com/...ommit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0

redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613

cve.org (CVE-2025-29917)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-29917)

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