CVE catalog
CVE-2025-29917
suricata: CVE-2025-29917
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 6.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.27% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | suricata | bookworm | Not reported | vulnerable |
| Debian | suricata | 13 | 1:7.0.9-1 | fixed |
| Debian | suricata | 14 | 1:7.0.9-1 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | suricata | deb | 13 | 1:7.0.9-1 | Not reported | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917 | Not reported |
| Debian | suricata | deb | 14 | 1:7.0.9-1 | Not reported | DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [suricata]Affected
Details (2)
1:7.0.10-1~bpo12+1· amd64 · bookworm-backportsAffected
dsa · suricata · debian · bookworm
1:7.0.10-1~bpo12+1· arm64 · bookworm-backportsAffected
dsa · suricata · debian · bookworm
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [suricata]Fixed
Details (4)
1:7.0.10-1+deb13u4· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1:7.0.9-1dsa · suricata · debian · 13
1:7.0.10-1+deb13u4· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
1:7.0.9-1dsa · suricata · debian · 13
1:8.0.6-1~bpo13+1· amd64 · trixie-backportsFixed · Fixed:
1:7.0.9-1dsa · suricata · debian · 13
1:8.0.6-1~bpo13+1· arm64 · trixie-backportsFixed · Fixed:
1:7.0.9-1dsa · suricata · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/opensuse-su-2025_15394-1.json]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29917]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-29917]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-29917.json]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/wid-sec-w-2025-1850.json]
[CERT-Bund public advisories] · [Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX] · [SUSE security advisories and VEX]