CVE-2025-29918

Name
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
CONFIRM https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-924c-vvm5-9mqx
MISC https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b14c67cbdf25fa6c7ffe0d04ddf3ebe67b12b50b
MISC https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7526
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00029.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
suricata >= 0 < 7.0.9
cpe:2.3:a:oisf:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* suricata >= None < 7.0.9

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
suricata edge-community 7.0.8-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable
suricata edge-community 7.0.7-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable
suricata 3.22-community 7.0.8-r0 Steve McMaster <code@mcmaster.io> possibly vulnerable