CVE-2025-29918 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/b14c67cbdf25fa6c7ffe0d04ddf3ebe67b12b50b https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-924c-vvm5-9mqx https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/7526