CVE-2025-29917

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-29917
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-29917.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-29917
Aliases
  • GHSA-x8c9-8553-j9px
Downstream
Published
2025-04-10T21:00:05.924Z
Modified
2025-12-02T08:11:20.462604Z
Severity
  • 6.2 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Suricata decode_base64: signature can do large memory allocation
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.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/29xxx/CVE-2025-29917.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/oisf/suricata

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/oisf/suricata
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
76729e42663da010d6fcc4d13d38215344853a23

Affected versions

suricata-0.*

suricata-0.8.2

suricata-1.*

suricata-1.0.0
suricata-1.0.1
suricata-1.0.2
suricata-1.1
suricata-1.1beta1
suricata-1.1beta2
suricata-1.1beta3
suricata-1.1rc1
suricata-1.2
suricata-1.2.1
suricata-1.2beta1
suricata-1.2rc1
suricata-1.3
suricata-1.3.1
suricata-1.3beta1
suricata-1.3beta2
suricata-1.3rc1
suricata-1.4
suricata-1.4beta1
suricata-1.4beta2
suricata-1.4beta3
suricata-1.4rc1

suricata-2.*

suricata-2.0
suricata-2.0.1
suricata-2.0.1rc1
suricata-2.0.2
suricata-2.0beta1
suricata-2.0beta2
suricata-2.0rc1
suricata-2.0rc2
suricata-2.0rc3
suricata-2.1beta1
suricata-2.1beta2
suricata-2.1beta3
suricata-2.1beta4

suricata-3.*

suricata-3.0
suricata-3.0.1
suricata-3.0.1RC1
suricata-3.0RC1
suricata-3.0RC2
suricata-3.0RC3
suricata-3.1
suricata-3.1.1
suricata-3.1.2
suricata-3.1RC1
suricata-3.2
suricata-3.2.1
suricata-3.2RC1
suricata-3.2beta1

suricata-4.*

suricata-4.0.0
suricata-4.0.0-beta1
suricata-4.0.0-rc1
suricata-4.0.0-rc2
suricata-4.0.1
suricata-4.1.0
suricata-4.1.0-beta1
suricata-4.1.0-rc1
suricata-4.1.0-rc2
suricata-4.1.1
suricata-4.1.2

suricata-5.*

suricata-5.0.0
suricata-5.0.0-beta1
suricata-5.0.0-rc1
suricata-5.0.1

suricata-6.*

suricata-6.0.0
suricata-6.0.0-beta1
suricata-6.0.0-rc1
suricata-6.0.1

suricata-7.*

suricata-7.0.0
suricata-7.0.0-beta1
suricata-7.0.0-rc1
suricata-7.0.0-rc2
suricata-7.0.1
suricata-7.0.2
suricata-7.0.3
suricata-7.0.4
suricata-7.0.5
suricata-7.0.6
suricata-7.0.7
suricata-7.0.8