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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.2 Medium

CVE-2025-29918

Suricata pcre: negated pcr can cause infinite loop

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

OISF suricata

  • < 7.0.9affected

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