Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting suricata package, versions [,7.0.14)[8.0.0-beta1,8.0.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Jan 2026
- disclosed27 Jan 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 27 Jan 2026
CVE-2026-22262 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade suricata to version 7.0.14, 8.0.3 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Stack-based Buffer Overflow via the save process when handling datasets with excessively large data. An attacker can cause a denial of service by providing a dataset entry that exceeds the stack buffer size.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by avoiding the use of rules with datasets save or state options.