Medium severity5.9NVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-55627

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.8, a specially crafted TCP stream can lead to a very large buffer overflow while being zero-filled during initialization with memset due to an unsigned integer underflow. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.

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Affected products

Oisf/Suricata3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <7.0.8
- (no CPE)range: <7.0.8
- (no CPE)range: < 7.0.8
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/suricata&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 8.0.0-1.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/282509f70c4ce805098e59535af445362e3e9ebdnvdPatch
github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/8900041405dbb5f9584edae994af2100733fb4benvdPatch
github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9a53ec43b13f0039a083950511a18bf6f408e432nvdPatch
github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-h2mv-7gg8-8x7vnvdVendor Advisory
redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7393nvdPermissions Required

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