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CVE-2025-29916

Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.0.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Datasets declared in rules have an option to specify the `hashsize` to use. This size setting isn't properly limited, so the hash table allocation can be large. Untrusted rules can lead to large memory allocations, potentially leading to denial of service due to resource starvation. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.9.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • OISF suricata

    fixed in 7.0.9

References 3

GitHub · OISF/suricata

redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org