CVE-2025-29918

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-03-12 | Published 2025-04-10 | Updated 2025-11-03 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Product status

References

lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00029.html

github.com/...ricata/security/advisories/GHSA-924c-vvm5-9mqx

github.com/...ommit/b14c67cbdf25fa6c7ffe0d04ddf3ebe67b12b50b

redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7526

cve.org (CVE-2025-29918)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-29918)

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