CVE-2018-10242

HIGH

Suricata <4.0.4 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Suricata version 4.0.4 incorrectly handles the parsing of the SSH banner. A malformed SSH banner can cause the parsing code to read beyond the allocated data because SSHParseBanner in app-layer-ssh.c lacks a length check.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://suricata-ids.org/2018/07/18/suricata-4-0-5-available/
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00010.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0041
EPSS Percentile 61.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
oisf/suricata 4.0.4
Published Apr 04, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026