CVE-2018-10242: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
  • Oisf Suricata: version 4.0.4 only

Published 2019-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.