NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting suricata package, versions [8.0.0,8.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SURICATA-13181836
  • published2 Oct 2025
  • disclosed1 Oct 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-59150  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade suricata to version 8.0.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference if tls.subjectaltname keyword when the decoded contains a NULL byte. An attacker can cause a segmentation fault and disrupt service by sending specially crafted TLS certificates.

##Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling rules that use the tls.subjectaltname keyword.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1