CVE-2025-29918 (GCVE-0-2025-29918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-10 21:02
Modified
2025-04-11 16:03
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. A PCRE rule can be written that leads to an infinite loop when negated PCRE is used. Packet processing thread becomes stuck in infinite loop limiting visibility and availability in inline mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.
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OISF suricata Version: < 7.0.9
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