Critical
Security advisory
An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.x before 4.1.4. If the input of the function SSHParseBanner is composed only of a \n character, then the program runs into a heap-based buffer over-read. This occurs because the erroneous search for \r results in an integer underflow.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-10053
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in Suricata 4.1.x before 4.1.4. If the input of the function SSHParseBanner is composed only of a \n character, then the program runs into a heap-based buffer over-read. This occurs because the erroneous search for \r results in an integer underflow.
osv:CVE-2019-10053
Complete source record
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