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High · 7.5 CVE-2025-29915 EUVD-2025-14816

Suricata af-packet: defrag option can lead to truncated packets affecting visibility

Published Apr 10, 2025 · Updated Apr 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. The AF_PACKET defrag option is enabled by default and allows AF_PACKET to re-assemble fragmented packets before reaching Suricata. However the default packet size in Suricata is based on the network interface MTU which leads to Suricata seeing truncated packets. Upgrade to Suricata 7.0.9, which uses better defaults and adds warnings for user configurations that may lead to issues.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OISF suricata < 7.0.9 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 suricata 1:7.0.9-1 —
Debian 13 suricata 1:7.0.9-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS suricata No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed suricata 8.0.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15394-1

Advisories 2

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