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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-10053

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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1 Nov 2026, 06:35 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-10053

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 May 2019, 21:29 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-10053",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-10053",
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    "severity": "critical",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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          "database_specific": {
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:41.782854726Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435212,
  "published_at": "2019-05-13T21:29:01.56+00:00"
}