CVE-2025-29917

Name
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
CONFIRM https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px
MISC https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0
MISC https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
suricata >= 0 < 7.0.9
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* suricata >= None < 7.0.9

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
suricata edge-community 7.0.8-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable
suricata edge-community 7.0.7-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable
suricata 3.22-community 7.0.8-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable