Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion

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    "title": "Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion",
    "summary": "Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the DHCP parser in rust/src/dhcp/dhcp.rs creates stateless transactions without recording their packet direction with AppLayerTxData::for_direction(), so a sensor that observes only one direction cannot mark the unseen direction inspected or free completed transactions. The RDP parser in rust/src/rdp/rdp.rs has the same direction-state defect. The per-flow transaction list can grow without bound and cleanup repeatedly scans it, causing increasing CPU and memory consumption and eventual denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:25.745980410Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6",
        "https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/8621",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/57xxx/CVE-2026-57224.json",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-m2vc-g65c-ph7m",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57224",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3f86c56c800392ede5cfaf7a944a431fd8445c55",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/5af13e3eb06be0387da8703b611c5ce932245c59",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bac8a69ca48c14582d39a244a87edad44751ebe1",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/ef035c7603293a10c5ad087e3d20b05f75236144",
        "https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15740"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 492296,
  "published_at": "2026-09-18T20:08:46.402+00:00"
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