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CVE-2026-57228 (GCVE-0-2026-57228)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-18 20:11 – Updated: 2026-09-18 20:11
VLAI
Title
Suricata smtp/mime: heap out-of-bounds read quoted-printable decoder
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.13 until 7.0.17, the SMTP MIME quoted-printable decoder in src/util-decode-mime.c can read one byte past a heap buffer when a quoted-printable escape sequence is split across traffic chunks and the following chunk contains exactly one byte. Crafted SMTP traffic can trigger the out-of-bounds read and crash Suricata when decode-quoted-printable MIME decoding is enabled. This issue is fixed in version 7.0.17.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
OISF suricata Affected: >= 7.0.13, < 7.0.17
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