CVE-2025-29918 (GCVE-0-2025-29918)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-10 21:02 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:46
VLAI?
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)
CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
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