DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-29917
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917
Upstream
Published
2025-04-10T21:15:48Z
Modified
2026-09-01T20:04:52Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / suricata

Package

Name
suricata
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/suricata?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:7.0.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917.json"

Debian:14 / suricata

Package

Name
suricata
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/suricata?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:7.0.9-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917.json"