CVE-2024-55628

Summary

CVE-2024-55628 affects Suricata, an open-source network Intrusion Detection System and Security Monitoring engine. The vulnerability lies in the handling of DNS resource name compression. Before version 7.0.8, Suricata failed to limit the size of DNS messages containing large hostnames, leading to excessive decoding costs and oversized DNS log records. The issue has been rectified in Suricata 7.0.8 with more stringent limits on DNS message sizes.

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