CVE Alert: CVE-2025-29917
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-29917
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.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
4/10/2025, 9:15:48 PM
⚠️ CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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