# CVE-2019-15699: An issue was discovered in app-layer-ssl.c in Suricata 4.1.4.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-09-24 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in app-layer-ssl.c in Suricata 4.1.4. Upon receiving a corrupted SSLv3 (TLS 1.2) packet, the parser function TLSDecodeHSHelloExtensions tries to access a memory region that is not allocated, because the expected length of HSHelloExtensions does not match the real length of the HSHelloExtensions part of the packet.

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## References

- https://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-announce/
- https://suricata-ids.org/2019/09/24/suricata-4-1-5-released/

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