In Suricata before 4.x, it was possible to trigger lots of redundant checks on the content of crafted network traffic with a certain signature, because of DetectEngineContentInspection in detect-engine-content-inspection.c. The search engine doesn't stop when it should after no match is found; instead, it stops only upon reaching inspection-recursion-limit (3000 by default).
{
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "3.2.4"
}
],
"source": "CPE_FIELD",
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openinfosecfoundation:suricata:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}