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High · 7.5 CVE-2024-28870 EUVD-2024-25940

Suricata uses excessive resource use in malformed ssh traffic parsing

Published Apr 3, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata community. When parsing an overly long SSH banner, Suricata can use excessive CPU resources, as well as cause excessive logging volume in alert records. This issue has been patched in versions 6.0.17 and 7.0.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OISF suricata <= 6.0.16, >= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 suricata 1:7.0.4-1 —
Debian 13 suricata 1:7.0.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —

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