Upstream information

CVE-2025-29917 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (GitHub) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.2 5.5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local Local
Attack Complexity Low Low
Privileges Required None Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None
Integrity Impact None None
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libsuricata8_0_0 >= 8.0.0-1.1
  • suricata >= 8.0.0-1.1
  • suricata-devel >= 8.0.0-1.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15394


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Apr 11 00:01:26 2025
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 29 01:27:39 2025