High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 6, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2024-55628
CVE-2024-55628
Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.8, DNS resource name compression can lead to small DNS messages containing very large hostnames which can be costly to decode, and lead to very large DNS log records. While there are limits in place, they were too generous. The issue has been addressed in Suricata 7.0.8.
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References
5- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/19cf0f81335d9f787d587450f7105ad95a648951nvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/37f4c52b22fcdde4adf9b479cb5700f89d00768dnvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3a5671739f5b25e5dd973a74ca5fd8ea40e1ae2dnvdPatch
- github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-96w4-jqwf-qx2jnvdVendor Advisory
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7280nvdPermissions Required
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