# CVE-2019-16411: An issue was discovered 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 Suricata 4.1.4. By sending multiple IPv4 packets that have invalid IPv4Options, the function IPV4OptValidateTimestamp in decode-ipv4.c tries to access a memory region that is not allocated. There is a check for o->len < 5 (corresponding to 2 bytes of header and 3 bytes of data). Then, "flag = *(o->data + 3)" places one beyond the 3 bytes, because the code should have been "flag = *(o->data + 1)" instead.

## What to do

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## References

- https://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-announce/
- https://suricata-ids.org/2019/09/24/suricata-4-1-5-released/
- https://www.code-intelligence.com/cve-2019-16411

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