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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2025-29916 EUVD-2025-14815

Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation

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. Datasets declared in rules have an option to specify the `hashsize` to use. This size setting isn't properly limited, so the hash table allocation can be large. Untrusted rules can lead to large memory allocations, potentially leading to denial of service due to resource starvation. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.

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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