CVE - CVE-2025-29917

CVE-ID
CVE-2025-29917	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MISC:https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0 URL:https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/32d0bd2bbb4d486623dec85a94952fde2515f2f0 MISC:https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px URL:https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px MISC:https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613 URL:https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7613
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GitHub (maintainer security advisories)
Date Record Created
20250312	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20250312)
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