Upstream information

CVE-2024-23839 at MITRE

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.3, specially crafted traffic can cause a heap use after free if the ruleset uses the http.request_header or http.response_header keyword. The vulnerability has been patched in 7.0.3. To work around the vulnerability, avoid the http.request_header and http.response_header keywords.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  CNA (GitHub) National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.1 8.1
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required Low None
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None High
Integrity Impact Low High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1
No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • libsuricata8_0_0 >= 8.0.0-1.1
  • suricata >= 8.0.0-1.1
  • suricata-devel >= 8.0.0-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15394

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Feb 26 19:01:15 2024
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 29 01:11:40 2025