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CVE-2025-29918 - Suricata PCRE Rule Infinite Loop Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2025-29918
Published : April 10, 2025, 9:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 6.2 | MEDIUM
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