| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-4103-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| suricata (PTS) | bullseye | 1:6.0.1-3 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 1:6.0.1-3+deb11u1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1:6.0.10-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 1:7.0.10-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| suricata | source | bullseye | 1:6.0.1-3+deb11u1 | | DLA-4103-1 | |
| suricata | source | (unstable) | 1:7.0.9-1 | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - suricata <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Fixed by: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b14c67cbdf25fa6c7ffe0d04ddf3ebe67b12b50b (master)
Fixed by: https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/f6c9490e1f7b0b375c286d5313ebf3bc81a95eb6 (suricata-7.0.9)