Suricata smb: some SMB flows can cause resource exhaustion
cve-program · CVE-2026-63448
PublishedSuricata 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.
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CVE-2026-63448 · CVE overview and exploitation status
cve-program · CVE-2026-63448
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-hvvj-c8xx-9g35
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/755d6c3061de4d7ba97f0ed31cdc17ab8cab4476
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/7ec9d72d28b9370712cf77a5b9d40d6b5db27cb4
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/88adab8bd3d62912941647ab65032d5ec75c893a
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/9a54a043516e644bb7b9d34117a91977f950a281
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bc39274a638d1cca2391cfa4891c8b6c255ff9ce
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/c8f68b0e4f9e721dca1c9ed6e08597c6964c7ac3
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-7.0.17
- https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8629
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