Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation
Summary
Suricata datasets: ruleset declared settings can lead to resource starvation
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-29916 suricata
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-29916 suricata
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com
- web redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org