CVE-2017-15377
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.020 · 80 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Suricata before 4.x, it was possible to trigger lots of redundant checks on the content of crafted network traffic with a certain signature, because of DetectEngineContentInspection in detect-engine-content-inspection.c. The search engine doesn't stop when it should after no match is found; instead, it stops only upon reaching inspection-recursion-limit (3000 by default).
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (4)
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references (9)
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- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/2680/commits/47afc577ff763150f9b47f10331f5ef9eb847a57cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00000.htmlcnnvd
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2231cnnvd
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b9579fbe7dd408200ef03cbe20efddb624b73885enisa_euvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00000.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/2231enisa_euvd
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b9579fbe7dd408200ef03cbe20efddb624b73885nvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00000.htmlnvd
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