CVE-2025-29918 (GCVE-0-2025-29918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-10 21:02 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:46
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Suricata pcre: negated pcr can cause infinite loop
Summary
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.
Severity
6.2 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-11 15:56 UTC
CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisor… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b14c67cbd… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7526 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025… |
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