Description
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the SMB parser can retain force-completed transactions on flows where Suricata sees payload in only one direction, including async-oneside flows, because cleanup waits for inspection in the unseen direction. The transaction creation paths in rust/src/smb can exceed the intended SMB_MAX_TX bound, and cleanup repeatedly scans the growing list. Sustained one-directional SMB traffic can therefore cause unbounded per-flow state and CPU and memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in versions 8.0.6 and 7.0.17.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 7.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| OISF | suricata | >= 8.0.0, < 8.0.6; < 7.0.17 |
References
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/755d6c3061de4d7ba97f0ed31cdc17ab8cab4476Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/7ec9d72d28b9370712cf77a5b9d40d6b5db27cb4Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/88adab8bd3d62912941647ab65032d5ec75c893aPatch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9a54a043516e644bb7b9d34117a91977f950a281Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bc39274a638d1cca2391cfa4891c8b6c255ff9cePatch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c8f68b0e4f9e721dca1c9ed6e08597c6964c7ac3Patch
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17Release Notes
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6Release Notes
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-hvvj-c8xx-9g35Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8629Permissions Required
Timeline
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026
- Last modified
- Sep 28, 2026
- NVD status
- Analyzed