Resource Exhaustion Affecting suricata package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-SURICATA-10881546
  • published24 Jul 2025
  • disclosed22 Jul 2025

Introduced: 22 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-53538  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 suricata.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream suricata package and not the suricata package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions 7.0.10 and below and 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.0.0-rc1, mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to uncontrolled memory usage, leading to loss of visibility. Workarounds include disabling the HTTP/2 parser, and using a signature like drop http2 any any -> any any (frame:http2.hdr; byte_test:1,=,0,3; byte_test:4,=,0,5; sid: 1;) where the first byte test tests the HTTP2 frame type DATA and the second tests the stream id 0. This is fixed in versions 7.0.11 and 8.0.0.