CVE-2024-55626

Suricata oversized bpf file can lead to buffer overflow

State: Published
Severity: 3.3 Low
Published: Jan 6, 2025
Updated: Nov 3, 2025
Reserved: Dec 9, 2024

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a large BPF filter file provided to Suricata at startup can lead to a buffer overflow at Suricata startup. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	3.3 Low	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-680 Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

Product	Versions
suricataOISF	< 7.0.8Affected

References

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-wmg4-jqx5-4h9v
https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/dd71ef0af222a566e54dfc479dd1951dd17d7ceb
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7366
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00029.html

Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.