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ubuntu-cve-2026-45751
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-09-10 21:17
Modified
2026-09-16 11:34
Summary
Details

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5, Suricata's inspection-buffer helper could leave an inspection pointer referencing freed memory after a chained transform caused the backing buffer to be reallocated. The issue is reached during a specific network traffic processing, and requires a specific but not malicious rule. Versions 7.0.16 and 8.0.5 contain a fix. As a workaround, avoid rules that chain dotprefix transform after another one.

Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45751",
  "modified": "2026-09-16T11:34:30Z",
  "published": "2026-09-10T21:17:00Z",
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}



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