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CVE-2018-10242

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Suricata version 4.0.4 incorrectly handles the parsing of the SSH banner. A malformed SSH banner can cause the parsing code to read beyond the allocated data because SSHParseBanner in app-layer-ssh.c lacks a length check.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• OISF suricata: 4.0.4

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00010.html
• https://suricata-ids.org/2018/07/18/suricata-4-0-5-available/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00010.html
• https://suricata-ids.org/2018/07/18/suricata-4-0-5-available/

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