CVE-2024-38536 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Suricata

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference4 documents4 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.6%
top 30.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Oisf Suricata
Timeline
PublishedJul 11

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. A memory allocation failure due to `http.memcap` being reached leads to a NULL-ptr reference leading to a crash. Upgrade to 7.0.6.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶CVEListV5oisf/suricata< 7.0.6
▶NVDoisf/suricata< 7.0.6
▶Debianoisf/suricata< 1:7.0.6-1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
CVE-2024-38536: Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine↗2024-07-11
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CVEList
Suricata http/range: NULL-ptr deref when http.memcap is reached↗2024-07-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Debian
CVE-2024-38536: suricata - Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System an...↗2024
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