High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-38536

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.

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Affected products

Oisf/Suricata3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <7.0.6
- (no CPE)range: >=7.0.6
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.6
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/suricata&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 8.0.0-1.1

Patches

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References

redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7029nvdExploitIssue Tracking
github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-j32j-4w6g-94hhnvdVendor Advisory
redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7033nvdIssue Tracking

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