Unauthenticated crash via variable-length stack allocation
Published Nov 26, 2025 · Updated Nov 28, 2025
Stack-based buffer overflow in Suricata before 7.0.13 and 8.0.0 through 8.0.1 allows remote attackers to crash the engine. LuaPushStringBuffer rounds an input length, allocates a correspondingly sized variable-length stack buffer, and copies the input before calling lua_pushlstring. Exploitation requires enabled Lua rules or output scripts to process a large attacker-controlled traffic buffer, causing a process crash without data disclosure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Stack-based buffer overflow in Suricata before 7.0.13 and 8.0.0 through 8.0.1 allows remote attackers to crash the engine. LuaPushStringBuffer rounds an input length, allocates a correspondingly sized variable-length stack buffer, and copies the input before calling lua_pushlstring. Exploitation requires enabled Lua rules or output scripts to process a large attacker-controlled traffic buffer, causing a process crash without data disclosure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-64344
- Published
- Nov 26, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Open Information Security Foundation
- Product
- Suricata
- Classifications
- CWE-121, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 26, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 7.0.13
- Affected versionversion=< 8.0.2
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