#VU35478 Out-of-bounds read in Suricata - CVE-2019-15699 

 

#VU35478 Out-of-bounds read in Suricata - CVE-2019-15699

Published: September 24, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35478
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15699
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Suricata
Software vendor:
Open Information Security Foundation

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.

An issue was discovered in app-layer-ssl.c in Suricata 4.1.4. Upon receiving a corrupted SSLv3 (TLS 1.2) packet, the parser function TLSDecodeHSHelloExtensions tries to access a memory region that is not allocated, because the expected length of HSHelloExtensions does not match the real length of the HSHelloExtensions part of the packet.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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