CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedSuricata's inspection-buffer helper is vulnerable to a memory management issue that can occur when processing specific network traffic, potentially leading to the use of freed memory. This flaw affects versions prior to 7.0.16 and 8.0.5, and could be exploited under certain conditions, posing a risk to network security. Organizations using Suricata should prioritize updating to the latest versions or implementing the recommended workaround to mitigate this vulnerability.
Public Exploit Signal
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Original NVD Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5, Suricata's inspection-buffer helper could leave an inspection pointer referencing freed memory after a chained transform caused the backing buffer to be reallocated. The issue is reached during a specific network traffic processing, and requires a specific but not malicious rule. Versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5 contain a fix. As a workaround, avoid rules that chain `dotprefix` transform after another one.