6.2
Medium
CVE-2025-29917 Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine
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.
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| suricata 7.0 | earliest → < 7.0.9 | 7.0.9 |
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9.4
Critical
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9.4
Critical
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5.9
Medium
CVE-2026-71418
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine
7.5
High