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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2025-29918 EUVD-2025-10709

Suricata pcre: negated pcr can cause infinite loop

Published Apr 10, 2025 · Updated Nov 3, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

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 —
Debian 11 suricata 1:6.0.1-3+deb11u1 DLA-4103-1
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 3

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