CVE-2026-57225

Description

Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, src/datasets-context-json.c assumes that a configured JSON or NDJSON dataset value_key resolves to a string. A trusted or untrusted dataset or rule feed containing a non-string value for that key can cause a NULL pointer dereference during startup, configuration test mode, or rule reload, crashing Suricata before traffic processing. This issue is fixed in version 8.0.6.

References

• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/3ca2ed25a324597a85a2ab11595c3b0689468ea5
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/commit/bd3293aca714f5d090b73e7d9be0e5cd7e3f5f53
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/pull/15699
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/releases/tag/suricata-8.0.6
• https://github.com/OISF/suricata/security/advisories/GHSA-vqqx-88xw-qqvc